Former President Trump leads President Biden in a potential head-to-head rematch among Georgia voters, according to a new poll.<\/p>\n
A poll published by the Atlanta Journal-Constitution (AJC) found the Republican challenger holds a 45% to 37% lead over his successor. Just 7% of Georgia voters were unwilling to support either candidate, 6% said they were unsure of who they would ultimately support and 6% said they would not vote.<\/p>\n
The poll comes the day after Trump won his first 20 delegates in the race for the Republican nomination after securing 51% of the vote in the Iowa Caucus, leading all other Republicans in the contest, including Ron DeSantis, Nikki Haley, Vivek Ramaswamy and Asa Hutchinson.<\/p>\n
Biden trails Trump in part due to his historically low approval ratings and his \u2018dismal\u2019 support among independent voters, AJC\u2019s Greg Bluestein and Michelle Baruchman wrote. Only 37% approved of the job he was doing in the White House.<\/p>\n
As the Republican primary is officially underway, Trump\u2019s support has swelled over recent months while Biden continues to falter in a state that helped dictate the results of their 2020 contest.<\/p>\n
Nearly three-quarters of registered voters said they believed the U.S. was headed down the \u2018wrong track\u2019 and most disapproved of Biden serving at the helm.<\/p>\n
In the new AJC poll, about 62% of registered voters disapproved of the president\u2019s job performance. Among independents, Biden fared only slightly better, with a majority (54%) still disapproving of his performance.<\/p>\n
In contrast, these same registered voters approve of their Republican governor, Brian Kemp.<\/p>\n
\u2018About 57% of Georgia voters approve of his job performance, down slightly from this time last year. He has high marks among fellow Republicans (74%) and independents (52%). And, surprisingly, about 40% of Democrats and about 40% of Black voters view him positively,\u2019 AFC Politics reported.<\/p>\n
Trump\u2019s current 8-point lead comes as he and Biden were virtually tied in the same poll conducted in November. At the time, Trump was at 45% to Biden\u2019s 44%.<\/p>\n
In 2020, Biden narrowly won Georgia over Trump by less than 12,000 votes. The result was the opposite outcome of the 2016 presidential contest when Trump carried the state over Hillary Clinton.<\/p>\n
The AJC poll was conducted Jan. 3-11 by the University of Georgia\u2019s School of Public and International Affairs and involved 1,007 registered voters. Its margin of error is 3.1 percentage points.<\/p>\n\n
Former President Trump leads President Biden in a potential head-to-head rematch among Georgia voters, according to a new poll. A poll published by the Atlanta Journal-Constitution (AJC) found the Republican challenger holds a 45% to 37% lead over his successor. Just 7% of Georgia voters were unwilling to support either candidate, 6% said they were <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":14171,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-14170","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-politics"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14170","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14170"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14170\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}