Trump 2020 polls: White-collar revolt against the President is peaking
CNNCNN — From his open defiance of public health officials when holding rallies to his increasingly explicit embrace of White racial backlash, President Donald Trump has set a course for his reelection campaign that could produce the GOP’s largest deficit in the history of modern polling among well-educated White voters. In Navigator polling last week, he said, a solid majority of Americans opposed Trump’s decision to restart his rallies, with opposition much greater among Whites with college degrees than those without one. See Trump and Biden in head-to-head polling A national Quinnipiac University survey earlier this month found that two-thirds of college-educated Whites preferred Biden over Trump to handle race relations That was as big an advantage as Biden enjoyed on that question among Hispanics As Matt McDermott, a Democratic pollster, has argued, those results underscore a critical shift from 1968: While most White suburbanites then believed Nixon could tamp down disorder, many of the equivalent voters today believe that Trump’s confrontational and divisive language on race increases the risk of violence in their communities. In 2016, the Edison Research exit polls conducted for media organizations that included CNN showed Trump squeezing out a narrow 3-point win among college-educated Whites, while the American National Election Studies poll gave Clinton a 10-point advantage – the first time that survey had ever shown Democrats winning among this group.