Joe Biden has gained an inch in the polls - and Democrats are jubilant | Emma Brockes

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

63% : In February, the Biden campaign raised $53m in donations, and has built a significant fundraising advantage over Trump.
52% : All this based on national polling that puts Trump 0.7% ahead.
51% : In Pennsylvania, a key battleground that flipped for Trump in 2016, a recent survey put Biden up 10 points, having led by only one in February.
51% : In the spring of 2020, reporters were going to Trump rallies and sending back dispatches as if from the moon.
47% : To list Biden's successes against these liabilities of Trump's as if the comparison falls within a regular framework is an exercise that plunges us back into the realm of the surreal.
44% : Many young people still endorse Biden, but Trump, up a net 15 points in that demographic since 2020, is seemingly gaining ground with younger Americans.
39% : Meanwhile, last month, Trump predicted a "bloodbath for the country" if he lost the election, a word he repeated in a speech in Grand Rapids, Michigan last week.
35% : Next week, Trump will become the first former US president to face criminal proceedings, with the start of the so-called hush-money trial featuring Stormy Daniels.
31% : Hanging over Trump is the recent $454m judgment against him in the civil fraud case brought by the New York attorney general, Letitia James, for which, in March, he was scheduled to pay a $175m bond.
17% : The normalisation of Trump has been largely a bad thing.

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