Not one UK constituency would vote for Trump over Biden, poll finds
Republican gets relatively strong support in coastal towns, but three in four Britons would vote for Democrat
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Your support makes all the difference.If Donald Trump loses this week’s US presidential election, poll numbers suggest he has very little chance of reviving his political career on the other side of the Atlantic.
The president would lose every single constituency in the UK if British voters were given a choice between Mr Trump and Joe Biden, according to a new survey.
The Hanbury Strategy study shows 76 per cent of Britons would vote for the Democratic challenger, while only 24 per cent would back the Republican incumbent.
Polling analysis by the Hanbury experts — who ran the numbers through a model predicting parliamentary constituency results — showed Mr Trump does have considerable support in some of England’s deprived, pro-Brexit coastal towns.
The Republican finds the most support in Great Grimsby, where he would win 32 per cent of the vote. Mr Trump also gets over 30 per cent support in Hull, Castle Point and East Basildon South and Thurrock East. Yet he would still lose all of these constituencies to Mr Biden.
The most pro-Biden places in Britain can be found in anti-Brexit parts of Scotland, London and the south. Some 85 per cent of votes in East Dunbartonshire would vote for the Democrat.
Labour’s Ian Murray, MP for Edinburgh South, the second most pro-Biden place in the UK, said most people in Britain think the president is “ill-equipped” to lead.
“The UK as a country rejects all that kind of divisive nationalism that Trump embodies — his racism, misogyny, his mocking of disabled people, the incompetence,” he told Politico, which commissioned the poll.
One intriguing feature of Mr Trump’s support in Britain is his relatively strong appeal among young people. He finds most support (30 per cent) in the 25 to 34-year-old age group. He gets the weakest level of backing from the over 65s (only 17 per cent).
While 35 per cent of Conservatives would vote for Mr Trump, only 12 per cent of Labour or Liberal Democrat voters would opt for the president.
Nigel Farage, the Brexit Party leader who spoke alongside his ally Mr Trump at a rally in Arizona last week, is not surprised the president is so unpopular in Britain.
“[Trump has] been portrayed as a monster by the UK press. From the moment he took office, virtually every media organisation, every public commentator has said bad things about him.”
Foreign secretary Dominic Raab last week suggested it did not matter to the UK government whether Mr Trump or Mr Biden won.
“We’re exceptionally well placed, given our values, given what we do in practice — from security and intelligence through to climate change and trade — to make sure that whoever is in the White House that the relationship between Britain and the US will thrive,” he said.
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