Biden tops Trump in Pennsylvania survey 

President Biden polled ahead of former President Trump in Pennsylvania, a pivotal battleground state the president won in 2020, according to a survey released Wednesday.

The new poll from Quinnipiac University found Biden received 49 percent support and that Trump received 46 percent support from voters in the swing state.

The 3-point lead over Trump comes after the former president received 47 percent support and Biden received 45 percent support in Pennsylvania in a Quinnipiac University poll in October. In a Franklin & Marshall College poll of Pennsylvania voters that same month, however, Biden beat Trump by 2 points, with 44 percent saying they favored the president compared with 42 percent for Trump.

Biden took Pennsylvania in 2020 after Trump won the state in 2016. Biden typically has traveled to the state for big events, including speeches focused on democracy or for a campaign rally, and considers the state a second home to him. First lady Jill Biden is a Philadelphia-area native.

Biden is set to travel to Pennsylvania on Friday and visit the Allentown area for a speech on his economic agenda.

When independent and Green Party candidates were included in the new Quinnipiac University poll, Biden received 41 percent support, Trump received 39 percent support and independent candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. received 11 percent support. Meanwhile, Green Party candidate Jill Stein received 4 percent support, and independent candidate Cornel West received 2 percent support.

Among Republican primary candidates, Trump received 61 percent support in Pennsylvania, compared with 14 percent for former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley and 10 percent for Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis. The poll is the first time Haley has numerically surpassed DeSantis in any Quinnipiac University poll, according to Quinnipiac.

Nationally, the aggregation of polls kept by Decision Desk HQ and The Hill shows Trump with a lead of 1.2 percentage points over Biden.

Quinnipiac surveyed 1,680 Pennsylvania voters Jan. 4-8 with a margin of error of plus or minus 2.4 percentage points.