--- title: Joe Biden Would Beat Donald Trump in 2020, Poll Says description: Joe Biden would easily beat President Donald Trump if the two were to face off in a general election, according to a new poll canonical: https://time.com/5025221/joe-biden-beats-donald-trump-in-2020-poll/ author: Sarah Begley article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-11-15T15:23:13.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-23T18:15:05.154Z article:section: Politics og:title: Joe Biden Would Beat President Trump in 2020, a New Poll Says og:description: But that doesn't mean he's Democrats' first choice og:url: https://time.com/5025221/joe-biden-beats-donald-trump-in-2020-poll/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blte339b31fc7f68548/6988e5e022fb85e455e23b0a/joe-biden.jpeg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Glamour Celebrates 2017 Women Of The Year Live Summit og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Joe Biden Would Beat President Trump in 2020, a New Poll Says twitter:description: But that doesn't mean he's Democrats' first choice twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blte339b31fc7f68548/6988e5e022fb85e455e23b0a/joe-biden.jpeg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Joe Biden Would Beat President Trump in 2020, a New Poll Says by [Sarah Begley](https://time.com/author/sarah-begley/) ## Sarah Begley Nov 15, 2017 3:23 PM UTC  Former Vice President of the United States Joe Biden speaks onstage during Glamour Celebrates 2017 Women Of The Year Live Summit at Brooklyn Museum on November 13, 2017 in New York City. Former Vice President of the United States Joe Biden speaks onstage during Glamour Celebrates 2017 Women Of The Year Live Summit at Brooklyn Museum on November 13, 2017 in New York City.Craig Barritt—Getty Images for Glamour by [Sarah Begley](https://time.com/author/sarah-begley/) ## Sarah Begley Nov 15, 2017 3:23 PM UTC Former Vice President Joe Biden, who in recent days has [opened the door to another run at the White House in 2020](http://time.com/5021408/joe-biden-president-of-the-united-states/), would easily beat President Donald Trump if the two were to face off in a general election, according to a new poll. [The _Politico_/Morning Consult survey](https://www.politico.com/story/2017/11/15/biden-trump-2020-elections-244900) found that 46% of voters would opt to put Biden in the Oval Office, compared to 35% who would vote to keep Trump there. A fifth of voters are undecided between Trump and Biden, according to the poll. Polls conducted so far ahead of elections are typically not reliable indicators of how voters will behave years later. And Biden’s appeal over Trump is less than that of a generic Democrat: 48% of voters said they would opt for a generic Democrat, compared to 34% for Trump. The survey of 1,993 registered voters, conducted from Nov. 9-11 as Biden geared up for a media tour to promote his new book [_Promise Me, Dad_](https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1250171679/ref=as%5Fli%5Fqf%5Fasin%5Fil%5Ftl?ie=UTF8&tag=time037-20&creative=9325&linkCode=as2&creativeASIN=1250171679&linkId=f82f9d3f6be605abfa3d2c78c75d20fd) and entertained questions about whether he would run against Trump, has a margin of error of plus or minus two percentage points. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/5025221/joe-biden-beats-donald-trump-in-2020-poll/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/5025221/joe-biden-beats-donald-trump-in-2020-poll/"},"headline":"Joe Biden Would Beat President Trump in 2020, a New Poll Says","datePublished":"2017-11-15T15:23:13.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-23T18:15:05.154Z","description":"But that doesn't mean he's Democrats' first choice","url":"https://time.com/5025221/joe-biden-beats-donald-trump-in-2020-poll/","keywords":["2020 Election","onetime"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blte339b31fc7f68548/6988e5e022fb85e455e23b0a/joe-biden.jpeg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Sarah Begley","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/sarah-begley/"}],"articleSection":"Politics","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blte339b31fc7f68548/6988e5e022fb85e455e23b0a/joe-biden.jpeg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Glamour Celebrates 2017 Women Of The Year Live Summit","caption":"Glamour Celebrates 2017 Women Of The Year Live Summit","creditText":"Craig Barritt—Getty Images for Glamour","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":"/tag/2020-election/","name":"2020 Election"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/5025221/joe-biden-beats-donald-trump-in-2020-poll/","name":"Joe Biden Would Beat President Trump in 2020, a New Poll Says"}}]}] ```