Trump leads Biden by 5.3% when RFK Jr included: RealClearPolling average

The poll average, covering between January 22 and April 2, has Trump in the lead with 41 percent, a 5.3 percent lead over Biden, who received 35.7 percent support. Kennedy received 11.7 percent support.

Of the five polls included in this timeframe, Trump led in all of them. His lead over the other candidates ranged from 4 points in a Harvard-Harris poll, to 7 points as seen in a separate survey from the same pollster.

In a five-way race including candidates Cornell West and Jill Stein, Trump leads by 1.8 percent in an average of polls from March 21 to April 11. In a two-way race between Biden and Trump, Trump leads by 0.2 percent in polls conducted between March 21 and April 11.

Trump’s lead in the three-way race has increased from March, when he was at 4.3 percent.

The polling comes as the 2024 presidential election is around 6 months away, with Biden and Trump both being named their presumptive party nominees in March.

The averages also come as Trump entered the courtroom on Monday morning to begin the criminal trial brought forth by Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg.

Bragg has charged Trump with 34 felony counts of falsifying business records, alleging that Trump marked payments made to attorney Michael Cohen as legal fees and those payments were used by Cohen to pay off media companies to kill a story about a porn star with whom Trump is alleged of having an affair.

If convicted, he could face up to four years in prison for each charge, culminating in 136 years.