Poll: Biden up by 2 points in North Carolina
September 3, 2020
Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden leads President Donald Trump by just 2 percentage points among registered voters in North Carolina, according to a new survey of the swing state that could also decide which party wins control of the Senate.
A Monmouth University poll published Thursday reports that 47 percent of North Carolina voters prefer Biden, while 45 percent favor Trump — a slight advantage for the former vice president that nonetheless falls within the survey’s 4.9-point margin of error.
The state’s Senate race is even tighter, with Democratic challenger Cal Cunningham ahead of Republican incumbent Thom Tillis by only 1 percentage point, 46-45 percent.
Tillis is widely regarded as one of the most vulnerable Senate Republicans up for reelection in November, along with Maine’s Susan Collins, Colorado’s Cory Gardner and Arizona’s Martha McSally.
The results of the Monmouth survey come after a Fox News poll of likely voters in North Carolina released Wednesday showed Biden and Cunningham leading their Republican opponents by single-digit margins.
Biden achieved 50 percent support in that poll to Trump’s 46 percent, a 4-point edge, and Cunningham led Tillis by 6 percentage points, 48-42 percent. The margin of sampling error for the Fox survey was plus-or-minus 3.5 percentage points.
Former President Barack Obama won North Carolina in 2008 but lost there to Republican nominee Mitt Romney in 2012. Trump carried the state in 2016, defeating Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton by 3.8 percentage points.
The Monmouth University poll was conducted Aug. 29-Sept. 1, surveying 401 North Carolina registered voters. The margin of sampling error is plus or minus 4.9 percentage points.
Source: https://www.politico.com/
