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CLEVELAND, Ohio-As the Nov. 3 presidential election nears, President Donald Trump lags behind Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden by five percentage points in Ohio, Biden also leading in neighboring Pennsylvania, and in Florida and Iowa, a Quinnipiac University poll released Thursday reveals.
All four states are swing states Trump won in 2016, states also that Barack Obama, the nation's first Black president and Trump's predecessor, won in 2008 and, in 2012 when he won reelection.
Biden also leads over Trump in national polls by eight points, 52-44 percent, a decrease from 10 points in October where he topped the president 53-43 percent.
According to a New York Times report, some 75 million Americans have already voted, either by mail or early in person.
The president's campaign, however, is eyeing Minnesota, New Hampshire and Nevada in hopes of an unlikely electoral college victory next month, the presidential election just three days away with Trump's biggest problem being his mishandling of the coronavirus.
