Former President Donald Trump boasts an eight-point lead against Joe Biden in Michigan, according to polling results released on Friday by CNN/ SSRS. Among registered voters, Trump received 50 percent support, to Biden’s 42 percent.
This lead matches his highest-ever advantage in the critical swing state, which Trump won in his 2016 election, becoming the first Republican presidential nominee to do so in 28 years. In 2020, the pendulum swung again, and Michigan awarded its electoral votes to Joe Biden.
In Pennsylvania, another state that flipped from red to blue in the 2020 presidential election, the candidates are in a dead heat—each sits at 46 percent.
While the majority of voters in both battleground states indicated that they were not satisfied with the candidates they had to choose from, with only 47 percent in Pennsylvania, and 46 percent in Michigan registering…
