Less than three-quarters of Black likely voters in Georgia plan to vote for Kamala Harris in November, down substantially from what Joe Biden achieved with this demographic in 2020, according to a new poll.
An Atlanta Journal-Constitution poll conducted by the University of Georgia’s survey research center found that of the Black voters in the Peach State surveyed, 73.8 percent said they would vote for Harris in the presidential election, against 7.6 percent who plan to back Trump, with 17.6 percent undecided.
This is a notable decline in a Democratic candidate’s position since the 2020 election, when 88 percent of Black Georgians voted for Joe Biden, according to a CNN exit poll. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution poll also gave Trump a nearly four-point lead with all likely Georgia voters, placing him at 47 percent of the vote against 43.4 percent for Harris.
Harris has suffered polling blows in key states over the past week; however, according to a major polling aggregation website, she remains ahead nationally. A recent InsiderAdvantage survey gave Trump the lead in the swing states of Arizona and Nevada by 2.5 points and a wafer-thin 0.2 points, respectively.
A study of recent polling by the election website FiveThirtyEight published on Monday gave Harris a 1.8-point national lead, substantially down from her 2.4-point lead on October 14. FiveThirtyEight now narrowly favors Trump to win the overall contest. Due to the Electoral College system, Harris could get the most votes but still lose to Trump, as Democrat Hillary Clinton did in 2016.
Speaking to Newsweek, Morgan Ackley, communications director of the Georgia Republican Party, said: “The most recent polling shows what Team Trump already knew, Georgians from Catoosa to Camden County are tired of the cost-of-living skyrocketing and drugs flowing across the open border into our communities. President Trump is winning or tied in every battleground, including Georgia, because his message is resonating with voters across the country.
“This November Georgia will say no to Kamala Harris and yes to Donald Trump and his America First policies.”
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