The big weaknesses Biden and Trump will confront on the debate stage: From the Politics Desk

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62% : Statewide, Haley captured 16.4% of the vote, almost 159,000 votes in a state that Trump won by 44,000 votes in 2016 and Biden won by 80,000 votes in 2020.
48% : Among independents who backed Biden, 21% said it was because they liked the president, compared to 67% who said they opposed Trump.
44% : When voters were asked their reason for supporting Biden in the mid-June CBS News/YouGov poll, 33% said it was because they liked the president, while 48% said it was to oppose Trump.
43% : He may be just three years older than Trump, but voters are more than 10 times as likely to cite Biden's age as consideration: That gap is driven by markedly different perceptions of each candidate's mental acuity: It's likely that voters have limited expectations for Biden's performance on Thursday.
41% : Since then, Haley has said she will vote for Trump in November.
37% : Trump, meanwhile, carries the weight of nearly a decade of controversy and inflammatory antics.
36% : Let us know This gets to why, despite Americans' profound doubts about him, Biden remains essentially tied with Trump in polling.
34% : There's probably no kind of performance Trump can put on Thursday that would bring about a significant change in his image.
34% : Then again, if Trump merely succeeds in confirming those reservations about him, it could prove to be all that Biden needs. ERIE, Pa. -- Nearly four months after Nikki Haley dropped out of the presidential race, many of her supporters are still without a political home.
29% : Among independents, those figures jumped up to 74% for Trump and 55% for Biden.
28% : "Trump is not a representative candidate of the Republican Party.
13% : The worst-case scenario for Trump is that this imposes a ceiling on his support, that too many voters are simply too unnerved by him to back him, no matter their view of Biden.
12% : In the early June CBS News/YouGov poll, 67% of voters said they personally disliked how Trump has handled himself, compared to 51% who said the same for Biden.

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