Polls: Biden leads by four in North Carolina, by one in Georgia

Views of the president’s handling of the outbreak are underwater in Georgia and North Carolina, as they are in the country as a whole – but nonetheless bolstered by Republicans who say he is doing a good job, even if many of them aren’t saying he’s doing a very good job. And a larger number of voters think Biden would do a good job handling the outbreak than think Trump is now…

In Georgia, a 55% majority says the state reopened too quickly, with fewer (31%) saying it moved at the right speed. In North Carolina, where coronavirus cases and deaths have been lower, voters are more evenly split between “too quickly” (39%) and “about right” (34%) on the pace of their state reopening…

As we’ve consistently seen in our polling, more Trump voters cite the economy as a major factor in their vote than cite coronavirus. The President is seen as better than Biden on the economy in Georgia, but only marginally better in North Carolina. In the case of the latter, that still isn’t enough to give him a lead.