Biden's re-election campaign has focused its messaging on the threats posed to democracy by Trump, whose numerous legal problems include criminal charges related to his efforts to overturn his loss to Biden in the 2020 presidential election. Other Reuters/Ipsos polls have shown that Biden's supporters are more motivated by opposition to Trump than support for the president.
Trump has pleaded not guilty to all charges against him, which he claims are part of a conspiracy by Democrats to disrupt his return to the White House.
Trump has regularly launched verbal attacks against the prosecutors and judges handling his civil and criminal cases, and a Reuters review earlier this month found that serious threats to US federal judges had more than doubled over the past three years. There have also been more.
While 38 percent of Republicans in the survey named immigration as the top issue for the country, a significant proportion – 13 percent – chose extremism, a sign that Trump's own views about the threat posed by “far left” Democrats to the nation have been strengthened. There are claims also. Resonate with his base.