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Biden sees poll and funding boosts

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U.S. President Joe Biden received good news ahead of his November showdown with Donald Trump. A new poll showed
Biden four points ahead, slightly extending his lead from March, and an aggregate of bookmakers’ betting odds put him
neck-and-neck with Trump for the first time since September. Biden’s campaign also has roughly double his rival’s campaign funds, with $192 million. In The Atlantic, though, one politics writer asked why, given Biden’s popular policies — notably allowing Medicare to negotiate drug prices and bring healthcare costs down — he doesn’t have a more convincing lead: It’s as though “voters’ impressions of political candidates have
little to do with the legislation those candidates pass.”