Former Vice President Joe Biden would crush President Donald Trump in the 2020 general election if it were held today, a poll released Wednesday morning showed.

The Politico/Morning Consult poll said Biden would take 46 percent of the vote, compared to 35 percent for the wildly unpopular Trump. The Democrat would blow away the incumbent president among independent and white voters, and even in some areas Trump won last year, according to the poll.

Forty-one percent of independent voters would pull the lever for Biden, compared to 26 percent for Trump, the poll showed. It is not just good news for Biden: Any Democrat would take down 48 percent of the vote when pitted against the Republican Trump, who the poll said would receive 34 percent in that scenario.

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Among white voters, Biden stood at 41 percent and Trump at 40. In the Midwest Biden polled at 45 percent and Trump at 36 percent, even though in the 2016 election Trump won every state in the region except Illinois and Minnesota.

The two-point difference between Biden and any other Democratic candidate stood out.

“Former Vice President Joe Biden has the upper hand in a hypothetical matchup against President Donald Trump, but he underperforms compared with a generic Democrat,” Morning Consult’s co-founder and chief research officer, Kyle Dropp, said in a statement. “Notably, 86% of Democrats say they would vote for a generic Democrat over Trump, but only 78% of Democrats say they prefer Biden over Trump.”

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The poll comes as Biden toys with the idea of running for the White House after spending eight years as second-in-command to former President Barack Obama.

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"No, I'm not closing the door. I've been around too long, and I'm a great respecter of fate, but who knows what the situation is going to be a year-and-a-half from now," Biden told NBC on Monday. Biden was promoting his new book, Promise Me, Dad: A Year Of Hope, Hardship, and Purpose, in which he details the aftermath of his son’s death in 2015.

Biden, who previously served as a U.S. senator representing Delaware, also recently challenged Trump’s nationalist “America first” policies.

"This administration is calling into question what the word of the United States means anymore,” Biden said at the Chicago Council on Global Affairs earlier this month. “What is it worth?"

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Biden could face a crowded Democratic field that would likely include Senators Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders.

The speculation over Biden’s possible return follows some big election wins for Democrats around the country. The party won the Virginia and New Jersey gubernatorial races, and gained seats in Virginia’s state house, among many other victories a year after a devastating loss in the presidential election.

The victories were considered a good sign for the Democrats before the mid-term elections in 2018. Twenty-three Democratic seats in the U.S. Senate are on the line, as are eight Republican spots, and the GOP owns a slim majority in the chamber.

The national poll of 1,993 registered voters was conducted November 9-11, and it had a margin of error of plus-minus two percentage points.

This article was first written by Newsweek

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