53According to a NBC News/Marist poll, Democratic candidate Joe Biden leads President Donald Trump by a 9-point margin in Pennsylvania.
53 percent of Pennsylvania voters supports Biden and Senator Kamala Harris of California. Meanwhile, Donald Trump and Vice President Mike Pence got 44 percent support.
The survey shows that Joe Biden is doing far better among suburban voters and whites than Clinton did four years ago.
Forty-five percent of likely voters approve the job the president is doing, while 52 percent disapprove. And just 44 percent have a favorable impression of Trump, while 54 percent have a negative one.
“With Trump’s job approval rating and favorability upside down, he needs to reshuffle the deck to close the gap,” said Lee M. Miringoff of the Marist College Institute for Public Opinion, which conducted the survey. “Trump’s best bet is on the economy to do just that.”
Among suburban likely voters, Biden leads Trump by nearly 20 points, 58 percent to 39 percent. In 2016, Trump won suburban voters in the state by about 8 points, according to exit polls.
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Biden also leads Trump among likely voters with college degrees, 63 percent to 34 percent. And the Democratic nomination leads among women, 59 percent to 38 percent.
Tied among white voters
The candidates are tied among white voters. And Biden leads among nonwhite likely voters, at 75 percent to just 19 percent for Trump.
The NBC News/Marist sample of 771 likely Pennsylvania voters was conducted by cellphone and landline interviews from Aug. 31 to Sept. 7 and has a margin of error of +/- 4.4 percentage points. The poll interviewed a total of 1,147 Pennsylvania adults, with an overall margin of error of +/- 3.6 percentage points.