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WASHINGTON — For all the recent 2020 focus on young voters, seniors and African-American turnout, don’t forget about the gender gap.
And Trump is up among men by 8 points, 50 percent to 42 percent — it was 11 points in the 2016 exit poll. Masking and unmasking the 2020 electorateOur NBC News/WSJ poll also shows that whether or not you wear a mask when you’re in public tells us a lot about who you are going to vote for in the 2020 presidential race.
Story continuesThis isn’t a country that is ready to return to normalFinally, when it comes to the coronavirus, our poll finds a public that remains skittish about getting things back to normal. And it also doesn’t sound like an electorate that’ eager to attend packed campaign rallies or conventions come August.
60 million: The estimated number of coronavirus infections avoided because of lockdowns in the United States, according to one new research study. “The Great American Comeback has begun. A record 2.5 million new jobs in May, and we're just getting started,” the spot’s narrator begins. So as Democrats spend millions trying to lay the pandemic at Trump’s feet, the question is: which argument will win out? And will an economic recovery resemble the “V-shape” that Trump has predicted it would mimic, or will a more complicated recovery throw a wrench in the president’s messaging?
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