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By Kate Plummer
Senior US News Reporter
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President Joe Biden is marginally behind Donald Trump in his campaign's own internal poll ahead of the presidential election.
The Democratic incumbent is set to face the former president in November. With some four months to go until the election, the pair participated in the first 2024 presidential debate in Atlanta, Georgia, on Thursday.
During this debate, Biden gave a series of incoherent and confusing responses and appeared to trail off and not finish his sentences at times. This led to calls for him to end his reelection bid and allow the Democratic Party to install a new candidate to take on Trump and Biden's odds of victory slumping, according to bookmakers.
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In response to criticism, the Biden campaign shared an internal poll to show that the president's support was unchanged by the debate.
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However, the poll still showed that Biden is still slightly behind Trump, with 45 percent of the vote share to Trump's 46 percent.
The poll, conducted on Saturday and Sunday, was of 1,805 registered voters in seven battleground states—Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, North Carolina, Nevada, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin.
The results were described in a memo by campaign pollster Geoff Garin of Hart Research and shared with The Washington Post and other publications. Newsweek has not obtained a copy of the polling for verification and has contacted Biden's campaign by email outside of normal business hours to comment on this story.
Meanwhile, while Biden has been under pressure due to his debate performance, one poll put him ahead of Trump following the debate. A Morning Consult survey showed Biden to be a percentage point ahead of his rival. The poll, conducted on Friday, put Biden at 45 percent and Trump at 44 percent.
The post-debate survey of roughly 2,000 people had a margin of error of +/- 2 percentage points.
Meanwhile, during an appearance on CNN's State of the Union on Sunday, former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, a California Democrat and Biden ally, defended the president after his debate performance, calling it "a bad night."
"It's not about performance, in terms of a debate, it's about performance in a presidency," the congresswoman told host Dana Bash. "The reaction to the lies of Donald Trump is something that maybe TV isn't focusing on, but people are. And to have a debate where you have to spend half your time negating what he said because he knows nothing about the truth. On one side of the screen you have integrity, the other side you have dishonesty."
A second debate between the two candidates is scheduled for September 10. Then, on November 5, voters are set to cast their ballots for the next president.
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