Donald Trump would beat incumbent President Biden to the White House if the race was held now, a new poll has shown.
New findings in a Harvard-Harris poll released on Friday show that Trump would beat Biden in a head-to-head matchup by five percentage points.
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The new findings also show that Vivek Ramaswamy is hot on the heels of Florida Governor Ron DeSantis who has shot up eight points in the polls and is only two behind DeSantis.
Trump would also beat Vice President Kamala Harris should she step up and run in the race by an even bigger margin of seven percent, according to the polls.
The former President also remains well in front of winning the Republican presidential primary, despite the rise of Ramaswamy.
Their survey, which polled 2,068 registered voters, also showed a wide sense of discontent across the country for both major party candidates, with 70 percent looking for another option.
The majority of people polled also agreed that President Biden was mentally unfit to continue to serve as President.
59 percent of people agreed that they had doubts about his fitness for office, with the majority being GOP voters, 85 percent.
It was also widely agreed in the polls that Biden was showing he is too old to be President, with over two thirds, 68 percent, agreeing he was too old.
Should the Republican party primary fall between DeSantis and Trump, polling suggests the former President would win by a landslide with 63 percent of the vote.
Outside of the main political front runners in the upcoming election, the poll also asked individuals about their favorability of political figures.
Top of this poll was Robert F. Kennedy Jr, who achieved a favorable rating of 47 percent, with a 26 percent unfavorable rating.
Second on the list was Donald Trump, who achieved a favorable rating of 45 percent, but a higher unfavorable rating of 49 percent.
It comes after polls published earlier this month by Echelon Insights found that 48 percent of swing state voters would back Trump in next year’s vote.
Pollsters, who interviewed 1,020 voters for the study, said just 41 percent would back Biden over the former president.
But in a straight head-to-head nationwide poll, Echelon found that Biden is just ahead of Trump by 45 percent to 44 percent.
Echelon Insights survey revealed 60 percent of likely Democratic voters said they would “definitely” or “probably” back Biden in a Democratic presidential primary.
It is a further 33 percent replied they would opt to back a different Democratic candidate, with 7 percent stating they were unsure.
The Echelon Insights poll was conducted with 1,020 likely voters between June 26 and 29, with a margin of error of +/- 3.9 percentage points.
The president was able to win the 2020 election after flipping the key swing states of Michigan, Wisconsin, Arizona, Pennsylvania and Georgia.
Last month, a survey suggested that the swing state of Pennsylvania had gone back towards Trump.
With 20 Electoral College votes and a tendency to swing back and forth between elections, Pennsylvania is one of the states crucial in determining who wins the presidency.
After voting for Trump in 2016, Pennsylvania turned blue for Biden in 2020.
The Quinnipiac survey said that 47 percent of voters in Pennsylvania would vote for the former President, while 46 percent would back the current commander-in-chief.
