Biden Surges in Post-Debate Poll Before Trump Hospitalized

  • Democrat leads 53%-39%, almost double his advantage last month
  • Other poll shows no bump for Trump after Covid diagnosis
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Joe Biden leads Donald Trump by 14 percentage points in a new Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll taken after Tuesday’s debate but before the president was diagnosed with coronavirus.

Biden led Trump 53% to 39% in the national poll, his highest margin of the presidential campaign, surpassing his previous 11 percentage-point margin peak in July.