Donald Trump Is Beating Joe Biden Among Educated Voters
Former U.S. President Donald Trump speaks at a campaign rally on May 01, 2024 in Waukesha, Wisconsin. A poll has shown Trump beating President Joe Biden among higher and lower educated voters.
Donald Trump is the preferred candidate over President Joe Biden among higher and lower educated voters, according to a poll.
An ActiVote survey of 953 likely voters found that Trump, the presumptive 2024 Republican nominee, is leading Biden in a head-to-head presidential race by 5.4 points (52.7 percent to 47.3).
When the results are broken down further, Trump is found to be beating the president among those with only high school education (51-49 percent), as well as those with some college or an associate’s degree (54-46 percent) and college graduates (53-47 percent).
The results are the latest warning sign for Biden as he seeks reelection against Trump in November. According to a CNN exit poll taken at the 2020 election, 55 percent of college graduates opted to vote for Biden, compared to 48 percent who voted for Trump. The Republican was still the preferred candidate among those without a college education in 2020 (50-43 percent).
Biden’s and Trump’s campaign teams have been contacted for comment via email.
The results, which were published on April 30, arrive just prior to Biden giving his most strongly worded rebuttal of the student pro-Palestinian protests at New York’s Columbia University and campuses across the country.
“Violent protest is not protected; peaceful protest is. It’s against the law when violence occurs. Destroying property is not a peaceful protest. It’s against the law,” Biden said on Thursday. “Vandalism, trespassing, breaking windows, shutting down campuses, forcing the cancellation of classes and graduations—none of this is a peaceful protest.”
Elsewhere, the ActiVote poll also found that Trump has a major lead over Biden among rural voters (68-32 percent) while the president is much more preferred among urban voters (64-35 percent).
Biden also narrowly wins among young voters aged between 18-29 (52 percent to 48), as well as those aged 65 and over (51-49 percent). Trump is the preferred candidate among those aged 30-49 by 10 points (55-45 percent) and 14 points of those aged 50-64 (57-43 percent).
“Trump wins men, while Biden wins among women. Both win a large majority of those affiliated with their party, while Trump leads among independents,” ActiVote CEO and co-founder Victor Allis wrote while sharing the results.
“Biden seems to be doing just fine with Black voters (88 percent support vs. 81 in our previous poll), but his problems continue with Latino voters, of whom 40 percent support Trump, significantly more than in 2020.”
The ActiVote poll was conducted between April 13-30 among 953 likely presidential election voters. The results have a mean average error of 3.2 percent.
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