With one day to go before the U.S. presidential election, former Vice President Joe Biden holds a substantial national lead over President Donald Trump, according to a final NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll.
In the final days of the campaign, Biden has a 10-point lead over Trump, garnering support of 52% of registered voters nationally versus 42% for Trump. That’s slightly down from Biden’s 11-point lead in the NBC News/WSJ poll from two weeks ago.
A majority of American voters say they’re unhappy with how Trump has dealt with the Covid-19 pandemic and where the country is headed.
Six-in-10 voters (60%) said the country is on the wrong track under Trump’s leadership and a majority disapproved of Trump’s handling of the pandemic, according to the latest poll. A majority of voters, 51%, said there’s no chance they’d support Trump, while 40% said the same for Biden.
The poll finds that a majority of voters, 52%, disapprove of Trump’s job performance, while 45% approve. And 55% of voters approve of how the president has handled the economy. But 57% disapprove of the president’s handling of the pandemic, while just 40% approve.
Biden’s key advantages are among Black voters (Biden has 87% to Trump’s 5%), voters ages 18-34 (60% to 32%), seniors (58% to 35%), women (57% to 37%), whites with college degrees (56% to 41%) and independents (51% to 36%).
Trump takes the lead among white voters (51% to 45%) and whites without a college or university degree (58% to 37%). He also takes a narrow one-point lead among men (48% to 47%).
The poll of 1,000 registered voters, more than half of whom were reached by phone, was taken between October 29 and 30 and has a margin of error of plus or minus 3.1 percentage points. More than 92 million Americans have already cast their ballots in the days before the November 3 election — representing 66.8% of the total voter turnout in the 2016 election.