Biden, Trump virtually tied in new Georgia poll

President Biden and former President Trump are essentially tied in Georgia, a battleground state Biden narrowly won in 2020.

Trump, the front-runner for the GOP nomination, is polling at 45 percent to Biden’s 44 percent, which is within the poll’s margin of error, according to a new Atlanta Journal-Constitution poll.

Among Black voters in Georgia, 78 percent said they would vote for Biden, which is down from the typical 90 percent support Democrats in Georgia receive from Black voters. Twelve percent of Black voters said they would vote for Trump, the poll found.

Additionally, the poll found that 30 percent of independent voters supported Biden, and one-fifth of independent voters polled said they are still undecided about the 2024 race.

The poll was conducted between Oct. 26 and Nov. 3 and has a margin of error of 3.1 percentage points.

Biden’s narrow win in Georgia made him the first Democrat to win the state in a presidential election since former President Clinton in 1992. Georgia was also crucial for the Democrats’ slim majority in the Senate after Sens. Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock won in runoff elections.

The polling out of Georgia comes on a tough week for Biden. A New York Times/Siena College poll found Trump leading Biden in five out of six critical battleground states, including Georgia, that will likely determine the outcome of the 2024 race. 

The poll also found Biden losing support among young voters and Black voters, compared to 2020.

A CBS News poll released Sunday also found Trump leading Biden in a hypothetical match-up, 51 percent to 48 percent. And a CNN poll released Tuesday found Trump polling at 49 percent to Biden’s 45 percent among registered voters.

The White House and Biden and campaign have sought to tamp down any anxiety around the president’s concerning polling numbers, arguing it’s still a year away from the election and that polls consistently underestimated his support in 2020 and the 2022 midterms.

And, Biden’s campaign sent a memo to news outlets Tuesday asserting there’s a disparity in the way the media has covered polling so far.