Election Day 2020: Economy, Coronavirus and Race Split U.S. Electorate - WSJ - 0 views
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A national voter survey conducted for The Wall Street Journal and other news organizations showed President Trump with his strongest support among men, white voters without a college degree, rural residents and those who said the government should put a higher priority on the economy even if it increases the spread of the coronavirus.
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the complex mosaic of the 2020 American electorate, a group expected to break a turnout record from 2016 when roughly 139 million people voted.
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The survey was conducted amid the most unusual voting process in recent memory, with a huge surge in early and absentee voting because of the pandemic.
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“People are just fed up with him, with the racial divide he made worse,” he said. “It’s like he did everything he could to prove he was unfit for office.”
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On a central question of the campaign—balancing the spread of a pandemic that has resulted in more than 230,000 reported deaths in the U.S. against further damage to the economy—about two-thirds of voters said it was more important to limit spread of the disease, while a third said limiting additional damage to the economy was more critical
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. The numbers were similar in the swing states of North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Florida and Georgia.
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Among those who think the federal government’s top priority should be reducing the spread, about eight in 10 backed Mr. Biden, while about 8 in 10 of those who think the first concern should be limiting additional damage to the economy backed Mr. Trump.