Black swing-state voters overwhelmingly back Harris — with key divides on age and gender, Howard poll shows
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By Stephanie Perry and Curtis Bunn, NBC News
An overwhelming majority of Black likely voters in battleground states said they’ll vote for Vice President Kamala Harris in November — though she needs to close the deal with some skeptical undecideds to reach President Joe Biden’s 2020 margins among Black voters.
The data, from a new Howard University Initiative on Public Opinion poll of 963 likely Black voters in Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, North Carolina, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin — the seven core battleground states in the election — show 82% say they’ll vote for Harris, while 12% say they’ll vote for former President Donald Trump. Another 5% are undecided, and 1% plan to pick another candidate.
The findings are in line with 2020 exit poll results across the same battleground states, where 89% of Black voters supported Biden and 9% supported Trump, as well as other post-election research studying the 2020 vote.
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