Six months out from the 2024 election, Joe Biden and Donald Trump are locked in a dead heat in the race for the presidency, the latest ABC News/Ipsos poll finds. Trump leads in trust to handle six of 10 issues motivating voters in the upcoming contest, including the economy, inflation and crime and safety. But Biden’s staying competitive by earning higher marks than Trump on measures of character, and in a sign of the cost of Trump’s continued legal woes, 20 percent of his supporters say they’d reconsider or no longer support the former president if convicted of a felony in his ongoing hush-money trial. Beyond ABC, coverage includes The Hill, Fox News, MSNBC here and here, USA Today, Politico, Newsweek and National Review.

In a separate finding, nearly four in 10 say the U.S. is doing too much to support Israel in its ongoing war with Hamas, up from about three in 10 in January, yet few rate the issue as critical to their choice of a candidate in November. And on another front, a slim majority expresses support for government action to force TikTok to divest from its Chinese owners. See further coverage at MSN and Tech Times.