Poll shows Biden within a point of Trump in Texas

By the numbers: The poll put Trump at 44% and Biden at 43% among registered voters in the state.

• Respondents favored Trump on handling the economy (54% to 40%) but thought Biden would be better at handling health care (49% to 43%).
• Both candidates were in the red in terms of their net favorability ratings, however, with Trump at -8 and Biden at -7.

Of note: The poll also showed that 59% of Texan voters support expanding mail-in voting access during the coronavirus pandemic.

• Both a federal appeals court and the Texas Supreme Court have blocked a request by the state's Republican attorney general to expand mail-in voting to all Texas citizens.
• Trump has expressed unsubstantiated concerns of mail-in ballots being susceptible to voter fraud, which led Twitter to issue a fact-check against him for the first time last week.

Methodology: 1,166 self-identified registered voters in Texas were surveyed from May 28 to June 1 with a margin of error of ±2.9 percentage points.