WASHINGTON The White House urged caution on Tuesday at polls showing President Joe Biden lagging behind leading Republican candidate Donald Trump, urging people to view them with a grain of salt.

A New York Times/Siena poll on Sunday showed Biden trailing Trump in five of six battleground states.

"There's going to be a lot of polls out there," White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre told reporters when asked about them. She said they should be taken with a grain of salt.

(Reporting by Trevor Hunnicutt and Steve Holland; Editing by Chris Reese)