Poll: Biden fares better than Clinton against Trump in swing states

Donald Trump has said he thinks he'll face Vice President Biden, not Hillary Clinton, in the general election (suffice it to say, he's also pretty sure he'll capture the GOP nomination).

According to a new Quinnipiac Swing State Poll, that might not work out so well for him.

The poll finds Biden -- who is still mulling whether to challenge Clinton for the Democratic nomination -- leading Trump in Florida (45% to 42%), Ohio (48% to 38%) and Pennsylvania (48% to 40%).

Clinton, the current Democratic front-runner, trails Trump in Florida (43% to 41%), but leads by smaller margins in the other two states.

The former secretary of State still maintains solid leads against Biden and other Democratic challengers in each of those states among Democratic voters, however.

Meanwhile, Trump has consistently led GOP polls but often scores poorly on favorability ratings, a potentially ominous sign for his chances of actually winning the nomination.

The Quinnipiac poll finds in Florida, for instance, that while Trump leads two home-state candidates in the GOP race (Trump is at 21%, while former governor Jeb Bush is at 17% and Sen. Marco Rubio is at 11%), his numbers don't look as good on closer examination. The billionaire real estate developer has a 36% favorability rating, well below Bush at 53% and Rubio at 52%.

"The first Republican debate mattered," Peter A. Brown, the poll's assistant director said. "Gov. Jeb Bush got middling debate grades and slips in the GOP horse race. Yet he does very well when voters rate the leading Republican candidates on personal characteristics."