US Election: 40% Each Poll For Trump And Biden Puts The Election On Unpredictable Curve

<h4>US Election<&sol;h4>&NewLine;<h4><&sol;h4>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><strong><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;openlife&period;ng&sol;">OpenLife Nigeria<&sol;a><&sol;strong> reports that <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;openlife&period;ng&sol;">United States of America President<&sol;a>&comma; Joe Biden&comma; has pulled equal poll with his Republican challenger&comma; Donald Trump&comma; this week&comma; in the race to win the November 5&comma; election&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>This development&comma; according to reports from <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;openlife&period;ng&sol;">Reuters<&sol;a>&comma; is  a sign that the contest remains close even after a widely favourable debate performance by the Democrat&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Biden and Trump each had 40&percnt; support among registered voters in the two-day poll that concluded on Tuesday&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>A prior Reuters&sol;Ipsos poll conducted June 11-12 showed Trump with a marginal 2 percentage point lead&comma; 41&percnt; to 39&percnt;&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The two faced off in a televised debate last Thursday&comma; where Biden stammered throughout and failed to challenge Trump&&num;8217&semi;s attacks&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The new Reuters&sol;Ipsos poll also showed that&comma; following the debate&comma; about one-in-three <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;vanguardngr&period;com&sol;">Democrats<&sol;a> think Biden should drop out of the race&comma; something he has pledged not to do&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The poll&comma; which gathered responses online and nationwide from 1&comma;070 U&period;S&period; adults&comma; had a 3&period;5 percentage point margin of error for registered voters&comma; many of whom remain on the fence with about four months left before the Nov&period; 5 election&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>One in five registered voters said that they weren&&num;8217&semi;t sure for whom to vote&comma; that they would pick a different candidate or that they would not vote at all&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The latest poll did not include a question on support for independent candidate Robert Kennedy Jr&period; The June poll found that 10&percnt; of registered voters would back him if he appeared on the ballot&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>While nationwide surveys give important signals on American support for political candidates&comma; just a handful of competitive states typically tilt the balance in the U&period;S&period; Electoral College&comma; which ultimately decides who wins a presidential election&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Both candidates carry significant liabilities&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>For Biden&comma; these include concerns about his age &&num;8211&semi; 81 &&num;8211&semi; that were magnified by his debate performance&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The latest Reuters&sol;Ipsos poll found that 83&percnt; of Democrats and 97&percnt; of Republicans agreed with a statement that in the debate&comma;<em><strong> &&num;8220&semi;Biden stumbled and appeared to show his age&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;strong><&sol;em><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Only 58&percnt; of Democrats and 11&percnt; of Republicans had the same assessment of Trump&&num;8217&semi;s debate performance&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Trump&comma; 78&comma; in May became the first U&period;S&period; president to be convicted of a crime&comma; whether in office or after leaving the <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;openlife&period;ng&sol;">White House<&sol;a>&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>He is scheduled to be sentenced in September and faces potential prison time after a jury found him guilty of 34 charges stemming from a hush money payment to an adult film actress before the 2016 presidential election&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;