Less than three-quarters of Black likely voters in Georgia plan to vote for Kamala Harris in November, down substantially from what Joe Biden achieved with this demographic in 2020, according to a new poll.
An Atlanta Journal-Constitution poll conducted by the University of Georgia’s survey research center found that of the Black voters in the Peach State surveyed, 73.8 percent said they would vote for Harris in the presidential election, against 7.6 percent who plan to back Trump, with 17.6 percent undecided.
This is a notable decline in a Democratic candidate’s position since the 2020 election, when 88 percent of Black Georgians voted for Joe Biden, according to a CNN exit poll. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution poll also gave Trump a nearly four-point lead with all likely Georgia voters, placing him at 47 percent of the vote against 43.4 percent for Harris…