According to a Reuters/Ipsos poll released on Friday, former US President Donald Trump has sharply increased his lead over incumbent US President Joe Biden in the American vote in the November presidential election.

The nationwide poll of 1,250 Americans showed Trump ahead of Biden with 40% to 34% of voting options, with the rest undecided.

The margin of error of the survey is 3%.

The new poll shows a significant gain for Trump as another opinion poll, also conducted by Reuters and Ipsos earlier in January, showed the former Republican president and White House incumbent at 35% of the vote.

Other opinion polls taken late last year also showed Trump ahead of Joe Biden, but a poll released by Reuters on Friday showed the largest margin in favor of the Republican candidate.

Trump is dominating the internal polls of the Republican Party

The new poll, released earlier this week, comes just days after Trump swept New Hampshire’s Republican primary with a landslide victory, following an equally landslide victory in Iowa earlier in the month.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, long considered Trump’s top contender for the Republican nomination, announced before the New Hampshire primary that he was withdrawing from the race.

Thus, Trump’s only opponent in the Republican race was Nikki Haley. But the former South Carolina governor and Trump’s UN ambassador is far behind the former president in the GOP poll.

Disaster for Biden in opinion polls

Given that the possibility of another showdown between Trump and Biden in the final race for the White House is now becoming more and more apparent, the former Republican president’s 6 percent advantage remains even when independent candidates are taken into account.

According to a Reuters/Ipsos poll on Friday, Trump would have 36 percent of the vote, Biden 30 percent and JFK 8 percent in a three-way race.

More than half of respondents said they were unhappy with the duopoly system in American politics, and 67 percent said they did not want to see Biden and Trump in the finals again.

However, only 18% of those who are undecided said they would not vote in November if the choice was again between the two candidates.

Alarm bells have probably been ringing for some time now about Biden’s campaign team, as 2019 polls showed him with a huge lead, but he ended up winning by a narrow margin in many key swing states.