Both leading candidates in virtual tie, as challengers fight for attention
Even after being indicted in two separate criminal cases, former President Donald Trump has maintained a commanding lead over his Republican rivals in national polls of registered voters.
But those same polls are showing that if Trump were to run head-to-head against the presumed 2024 Democratic nominee, President Joe Biden, the two candidates would be in a statistical dead heat.
Although much could change between now and the presidential election, political insiders and analysts told The Epoch Times that current polling provides valuable insights into how the 2024 contest is taking shape.
They also say this election campaign already has secured a prominent place in U.S. history. Both major parties’ leading candidates are embroiled in unprecedented controversies, reducing the visibility of their primary election challengers.
Those simmering scandals will ultimately affect not only polling but also could greatly influence who wins the 2024 election. Many voters believe the result will prove pivotal for the future of democracy in America, regardless of partisan politics.
Turning Point
“In my wildest dreams, I would have never thought that, in the year 2023, we’d be dealing with what we’re dealing with,” Mike Allen, an attorney, former prosecutor and judge in Cincinnati, Ohio, told The Epoch Times.
Allen, a conservative who hosts a popular political talk show on radio station 700 WLW, said he senses that House Republicans’ recent revelations about Biden’s alleged foreign influence-peddling are starting to break through to average citizens.
“We may have reached a turning point,” Allen said on June 23.
That was just after House Republicans revealed IRS whistleblowers’ allegations that the Department of Justice (DOJ) put up roadblocks during an investigation of Biden’s son, Hunter Biden.
The president’s son allegedly failed to properly report millions of dollars in income from foreign sources but later paid taxes on that income.
The president has declined to answer reporters’ questions on this topic, but Attorney General Merrick Garland denies that the DOJ interfered with the IRS’s probe.
By Janice Hisle
