Joe Biden holds a 17-point lead over Donald Trump in trust to handle the coronavirus pandemic in a new ABC News/Washington Post poll, powering the Democrat to a double-digit advantage in vote preference with the presidential election three weeks away. In the aftermath of his own COVID-19 diagnosis, two-thirds of […] Read more »
Younger voters are pessimistic about the future, down on Trump
The youngest voters in America are pessimistic about the future, worried about the coronavirus, down on President Donald Trump and positive about the Black Lives Matter movement. Those are the major findings of a new national online NBC News/Quibi poll of millennial and Generation Z voters, which was conducted after […] Read more »
Most voters confident their vote will be counted, poll finds. But partisans disagree on election threats.
Americans are worried about this election. And who can blame them? Each day, a new story, whether true, false or overblown, creates fresh anxiety about mail-in voting or polling places. A battleground-state survey conducted by the Stanford-MIT Healthy Elections Project shows that registered voters harbor worries about voting in this […] Read more »
In news about the presidential race, coronavirus overtakes nearly all else
In the biggest week of news in the 2020 presidential campaign, one story dominated like no other: President Donald Trump contracting coronavirus. According to The Breakthrough, a project from CNN, SSRS, the University of Michigan and Georgetown University tracking Americans’ recall of news about each of the presidential candidates, no […] Read more »
Majority Trust Biden to Lead Healthcare System Amid COVID-19
By a 52% to 39% margin, Americans trust Joe Biden over Donald Trump to lead the U.S. healthcare system most efficiently amid COVID-19. These data are based on a new study conducted by West Health and Gallup in the two days immediately following the first presidential debate, but before President […] Read more »
Mask Use Linked to More Accurate Perceptions of COVID-19
Despite ongoing debate over the politicization of face mask use, the vast majority of Americans — 80% — now say they would be highly likely to wear a mask tomorrow if they were out of their house and in an indoor space. Democrats are somewhat more likely than Republicans, 87% […] Read more »