ABC hosts George Stephanopoulos and Jonathan Karl appeared shocked by the results of a new poll that showed President Biden was trailing Donald Trump in several key states and said the findings were "frightening" for many.

Stephanopoulos said during "Good Morning America" that it was "tough news for Joe Biden."

"This is a wake-up call, this is frightening for not just the Biden White House, not just for Democrats, but for anybody who fears what a return to a Trump presidency would mean. He can win. The New York Times poll is not the first one to say this," Karl said.

A New York Times/Sienna College poll released on Sunday showed Trump ahead of Biden in several key battleground states. 

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The poll found that Trump was leading by 10 points in Nevada, six points in Georgia, five points in both Arizona and Michigan, and four points in Pennsylvania. Biden's sole lead was in Wisconsin, where he beat Trump by two points.

"The biggest challenge for Biden is it’s not just people have suddenly fallen in love with the idea of Trump going back to the White House. They haven’t. It’s that only 23% of the country, in our poll, think the country is on the right track," Karl added, noting the results of a new ABC poll.

The ABC Poll found that 76% of Americans believe the country was headed in the wrong direction. 

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Stephanopoulos suggested that these feelings might change if Trump is indicted.

"Voting for a convicted felon is another thing entirely," Karl agreed. 

"There was a fascinating story consistent with my reporting in The Washington Post talking about how he wants to prosecute his political opponents. Not only his rivals," Karl added. "This would be a very radical Trump presidency, much more so than even the first one."

Former Obama adviser David Axelrod suggested it may be "wise" for Biden to drop out of the 2024 race in a post on X, formerly known as Twitter, on Sunday. 

"Only @JoeBiden can make this decision. If he continues to run, he will be the nominee of the Democratic Party. What he needs to decide is whether that is wise; whether it's in HIS best interest or the country's?" Axelrod asked in a thread on X.

"The @POTUS is justly proud of his accomplishments. Trump is a dangerous, unhinged demagogue whose brazen disdain for the rules, norms, laws and institutions or democracy should be disqualifying. But the stakes of miscalculation here are too dramatic to ignore," he warned.

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The Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) announced Monday that it has reopened an evacuation route for civilians in northern Gaza to "move south for their safety." 

"The IDF has repeatedly called on the residents of Gaza City to evacuate from the area, and continues to urge them to do so," it said in a post on X alongside a video purportedly showing people walking along a road. "We are not at war with the people of Gaza." 

The development comes as Israel’s military has surrounded Gaza City, the capital of the Gaza Strip. 

According to Israeli media, troops are expected to begin marching through the streets of the capital as early as Monday or Tuesday, when they are expected to face Hamas operatives who are willing to fight street by street through their vast network of tunnels. 

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The IDF said Monday morning, aircraft struck 450 targets overnight, including tunnels, military compounds and anti-tank missile launch posts 

Troops also reportedly took over a Hamas compound early Monday morning and killed a senior Hamas militant. 

Since the ground offensive in Gaza began over a week ago, 30 IDF troops have been killed, which is in addition to the more than 1,400 people killed in Israel – most of them in the Oct. 7 Hamas attack that started the fighting. As of Monday morning, there have also been at least 242 hostages taken from Israel into Gaza. 

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The Palestinian Ministry of Health also claimed Monday that more than 10,000 people have now died inside the Gaza Strip during the war. 

The situation remains dire in northern Gaza Monday, as hundreds of thousands of Palestinians remain in Gaza City and other northern towns. 

Food, medicine, water and fuel, which is needed for generators that power hospitals, are all running low and Gaza’s sole power station remains shut down. 

While Israel has allowed humanitarian aid into the territory to assist the millions of civilians impacted by the ongoing fighting, they have not allowed fuel to enter, saying Hamas would steal it for military purposes. 

Fox News’ Anders Hagstrom and The Associated Press contributed to this report.