Battleground Tracker poll: Biden has edge in North Carolina and race is tight in Georgia

It’s another two states and another two competitive contests, as concern about President Trump’s handling of coronavirus continues to take a political toll on him. Together, North Carolina and Georgia add to our picture of an expanded electoral map. CONT. CBS News The OPINION TODAY email newsletter is a concise daily rundown of […] Read more »

Democrats Are on Track to Win Decisive Battleground Suburbs They Lost in 2016

Democrats’ path to victory in 2020 requires strong majorities in cities and minimizing losses in rural stretches, but it hinges on performance in the suburbs. … To better understand the dynamics in these decisive places, Third Way used data from the analytics firm Catalist to estimate how many people are […] Read more »

Fueled By Suburbs, Democrats Are Poised For Gains In Key States, Analysis Finds

A new report from the centrist Democratic group Third Way, and shared first with NPR, finds that Democrats are on track to win the suburbs in five of six key states they lost in the 2016 presidential election. The analysis — which is based on voter-file data from the progressive-aligned […] Read more »

Biden leads in North Carolina as voters give Trump poor marks on virus, race relations

Joe Biden leads President Donald Trump by 7 points in the key swing state of North Carolina, according to a new NBC News/Marist poll, with voters also favoring Democratic Senate and gubernatorial candidates and saying by 2 to 1 that the state was right to balk at the Trump administration’s […] Read more »