An opinion poll published by the American newspaper The New York Times on Sunday showed that the most likely Republican candidate in the upcoming presidential elections is former President Donald Trump, who is ahead of President Joe Biden in 5 out of 6 key states, amid Trump’s appearance in court tomorrow, Monday.

The poll conducted by the New York Times with the Siena Institute reported that the Republican billionaire is ahead of his Democratic rival in voting trends in the states of Nevada, Georgia, Arizona, Michigan, and Pennsylvania, which Biden won in 2020, while Biden is expected to win in the state of Wisconsin.

The results of this poll are not conclusive, but it shows that the general trend is not in favor of Biden.

67% of those surveyed saw that the country is moving in the wrong direction, while 59% did not agree with how Biden is exercising his role as president, while 71% supported the idea that he is “too incapable of being an effective president” when he is eighty years old.

Biden's popularity is declining among young voters and minorities, as the newspaper said that the demographic groups that supported Biden by an overwhelming margin in 2020 are now more fragmented, especially communities of Latin and African origin.

Biden's election campaign questioned these results, as campaign spokesman Kevin Munoz said that they would win next year's elections by focusing on work, not by worrying about the results of a poll.

Meanwhile, Trump will appear tomorrow, Monday, in court to give testimony during a civil trial in New York in which he faces charges of fraudulently inflating his wealth to enhance his real estate empire.

Trump underwent two hearings related to the investigation into this case, and in excerpts from his first testimony, he described the proceedings as “the largest witch hunt in the history of our country,” led by Democratic New York State Attorney General Letitia James.

New York Judge Arthur Engoron has proven fraud in Trump's organizations, and now he must rule on whether other violations of financial laws were committed, and issue his decision on the amount of the possible fine, after the prosecution requested fines of up to $250 million.

The judge said that the New York State Attorney General's Office, which filed a civil complaint, provided conclusive evidence that between 2014 and 2021, Trump and his children overstated their companies' assets from $812 million to $2.2 billion in Trump's annual financial statements.

Trump will have to deal with a very crowded judicial agenda during the Republican Party primaries, as he is expected to appear next March before the federal judiciary in Washington, on charges of conspiring to overturn the result of the 2020 presidential elections. But so far, Trump’s trials have not affected his dominance in the polls. opinion, and he regularly attended hearings in New York to benefit from them in the media.

Source: The French channel