--- title: Joe Biden Poll: He Bests Clinton on Trustworthiness in Three States description: A poll shows Vice President Joe Biden is viewed as more trustworthy than former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in three swing states. canonical: https://time.com/4004737/joe-biden-hillary-clinton-poll/ author: Aditya Agrawal article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-08-20T17:18:49.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-22T10:19:25.444Z article:section: Politics og:title: Voters Think More Highly of Biden Than Clinton in Key States og:description: He bests her on trustworthiness and honesty. og:url: https://time.com/4004737/joe-biden-hillary-clinton-poll/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt4f9e5ae22f983819/69886048196cf416f8037a89/joe-biden-hillary-clinton.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Former US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton looks out at the audience with Vice President Joe Biden at the end of the Vital Voices Global Awards ceremony at the Kennedy Center in Washington on April 2, 2013. og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Voters Think More Highly of Biden Than Clinton in Key States twitter:description: He bests her on trustworthiness and honesty. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt4f9e5ae22f983819/69886048196cf416f8037a89/joe-biden-hillary-clinton.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Voters Think More Highly of Biden Than Clinton in Key States by [Aditya Agrawal](https://time.com/author/aditya-agrawal/) ## Aditya Agrawal Aug 20, 2015 5:18 PM UTC  Former US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton looks out at the audience with Vice President Joe Biden at the end of the Vital Voices Global Awards ceremony at the Kennedy Center in Washington on April 2, 2013. Former US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton looks out at the audience with Vice President Joe Biden at the end of the Vital Voices Global Awards ceremony at the Kennedy Center in Washington on April 2, 2013.NICHOLAS KAMM—AFP/Getty Images by [Aditya Agrawal](https://time.com/author/aditya-agrawal/) ## Aditya Agrawal Aug 20, 2015 5:18 PM UTC A new poll shows Vice President Joe Biden is viewed as more trustworthy and has higher favorability ratings than former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in three key swing states. The [Quinnipiac University poll](http://www.quinnipiac.edu/images/polling/ps/ps08202015%5FSdeg82k.pdf) released Thursday shows voters in Florida, Ohio and Pennsylvania view Biden as more “honest and trustworthy” than Clinton by at least 20 percentage points in all three states. Biden’s favorability ratings beat Clinton’s by seven to nine percentage points. The poll also showed that Biden was as competitive as Clinton in general election match-ups in the three states against Republican contenders Donald Trump, Marco Rubio and Jeb Bush. Still, Clinton remains the frontrunner in the primary by a wide margin, with at least 45 percent of registered Democrats supporting her, while 15 percent would back Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders and 11 percent would back Biden. Peter Brown, assistant director at Quinnipiac University, noted that Clinton’s poll numbers were like a “leaky faucet” and have gone down since she entered the race. “She is now getting less than half the vote in all three states’ Democratic primaries,” he said. Biden is [reportedly considering](http://time.com/3981228/beau-biden-joe-biden-president/) running for president in 2016 and could make a decision by the end of summer. Florida, Ohio and Pennsylvania are key swing states and no presidential candidate since 1960 has won without taking at least two of these three states. The live interview poll was done by cell phone and landline from Aug. 7-18 of 1,093 registered voters in Florida, 1,096 registered voters in Ohio and 1,085 registered voters in Pennsylvania. It had a margin of error of plus or minus three percentage points in all three states. **Read Next:** [_Watch Joe Biden’s Heartfelt 2012 Speech About Death and Grief_](http://time.com/3903700/joe-biden-grief/) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4004737/joe-biden-hillary-clinton-poll/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4004737/joe-biden-hillary-clinton-poll/"},"headline":"Voters Think More Highly of Biden Than Clinton in Key States","datePublished":"2015-08-20T17:18:49.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T10:19:25.444Z","description":"A poll shows Vice President Joe Biden is viewed as more trustworthy than former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in three swing states.","url":"https://time.com/4004737/joe-biden-hillary-clinton-poll/","keywords":["Hillary Clinton","2016 Election topic","Joe Biden","Bernie Sanders","Polling"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt4f9e5ae22f983819/69886048196cf416f8037a89/joe-biden-hillary-clinton.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Aditya Agrawal","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/aditya-agrawal/"}],"articleSection":"Politics","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt4f9e5ae22f983819/69886048196cf416f8037a89/joe-biden-hillary-clinton.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Former US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton looks out at the audience with Vice President Joe Biden at the end of the Vital Voices Global Awards ceremony at the Kennedy Center in Washington on April 2, 2013.","caption":"Former US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton looks out at the audience with Vice President Joe Biden at the end of the Vital Voices Global Awards ceremony at the Kennedy Center in Washington on April 2, 2013.","creditText":"NICHOLAS KAMM—AFP/Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/politics/","name":"Politics"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4004737/joe-biden-hillary-clinton-poll/","name":"Voters Think More Highly of Biden Than Clinton in Key States"}}]}] ```