Donald Trump would lose the 2020 presidential election if opposed by any one of a string of female candidates, including Michelle Obama, Elizabeth Warren, and even Oprah Winfrey, a new poll has claimed.
Hillary Clinton would beat the Republican by six points, the Axios poll suggested, though Ms. Obama would triumph by an enormous 16-point margin. Kirsten Gillibrand, the New York senator, was tipped to beat Mr. Trump by eight points, 50 to 42.
However, nearly half – 47 percent – of respondents to the survey, conducted before the midterm elections in which Mr. Trump lost control of the House of Representatives to the Democrats, said they already held a “strongly unfavorable” opinion of the president two years into his tenure.
Axios and SurveyMonkey asked 9,908 people across two polls who they would vote for if the 2020 election were held today. The larger sample, of 6,497 people, had an error margin of 2.5 percent and the smaller one had a 1.5-per-cent error estimate.