Even though Donald Trump is spending plenty of time in
court,
a CNN poll gives him a lead over Joe Biden
in the race for the White House.
The survey shows Trump's support among registered voters is holding
steady at 49%
compared to Biden's 43% and CN NS Julia Benbrook joins
us from the White House now.
And Julia, what issues are motivating American voters right now?
Well, Cynthia, this survey showed that there is a sharp
partisan divide when it comes to the topics that are
most important to voters.
When it comes to picking a president now on the
Democratic aligned side,
the top four issues were protecting democracy,
abortion rights, the economy and gun policy.
While on the GOP aligned side,
the economy topped the list,
followed by immigration, crime and then protecting democracy.
Now, Julia, it's looking more and more likely that we
will see a televised debate between Trump and Biden that
is going to be interesting.
Well, that's right. On Friday,
President Joe Biden gave his most robust commitment to participating
in a general election debate with his opponent,
former President Donald Trump. He did this during a wide-ranging
interview with Howard Stern.
He said that he would be,
quote, happy to debate Trump.
This comes after a full court press from Trump's team.
He has been regularly saying that he'd like to debate
Biden anytime.
Place anywhere. He's even had an empty podium,
set up some of his events saying this is for
Biden.
I'm trying to get him to debate me.
Now it's important to note that Trump actually refused to
debate his Republican primary opponents.
He skipped all five of those primary debates,
but now he's asking for Biden to debate him sooner
than expected.
Right now the first scheduled presidential debate is on the
calendar for mid-september.
It's going to be in Texas and it takes place
50 days before Election Day.
That is actually earlier than it has been in recent
past,
in 2020. Biden and Trump met on the debate stage
for the first time 35 days before Election Day,
and then before that, in 2016,
when Trump was taking on former Secretary of State Hillary
Clinton,
they met on the debate stage 43 days before Election
Day.
All right, this is going to be such an interesting
race,
fascinating race to watch. And that is Julia Benbrook from
CNN in Washington.