• Trump wins white evangelicals but Catholics are split, AP survey finds

    Trump wins white evangelicals but Catholics are split, AP survey finds

    Nov 06, 2020 05:06 PM EDT

    ... VoteCast. In 2016, Trump won 64% of white Catholics and Clinton won 31%, according to a Pew Research Center analysis of voters. Among Hispanic Catholics, VoteCast shows 67% backed Biden and 32% backed Trump. “The election results show that the Catholic Church is as divided as our nation, but the ...

  • WATCH: McConnell holds news conference with key Senate races still undecided

    WATCH: McConnell holds news conference with key Senate races still undecided

    Nov 06, 2020 02:58 PM EDT

    According to AP VoteCast, a national survey of the electorate, voters ranked the pandemic and the economy as top concerns. “It’s time for a different approach,” said Democrat John Hickenlooper, a former governor who unseated Republican Sen. Cory Gardner in Colorado. Yet voters, for the most part, stuck with ...

  • Counties with worst virus surges overwhelmingly voted Trump

    Counties with worst virus surges overwhelmingly voted Trump

    Nov 05, 2020 10:29 PM EDT

    ... effective and gains government approval, she said. “The vaccine provides the reset button,” Sgaier said. Dr. Anthony Fauci may be another unifying force. According to VoteCast, 73% of voters nationwide approve of the way Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, has been handling the ...

  • With another Florida loss, Democrats begin second guessing

    With another Florida loss, Democrats begin second guessing

    Nov 05, 2020 06:32 PM EDT

    ... state's most populous, by just 7 percentage points — compared with Democrat Hillary Clinton's 30-point victory margin four years ago against Trump. AP VoteCast, a survey of the Florida electorate, found Trump won 58% of Cuban American voters statewide, while voters with South American heritage split evenly between ...

  • In Michigan win, Biden backed by lower-income voters

    In Michigan win, Biden backed by lower-income voters

    Nov 05, 2020 01:06 AM EDT

    In Michigan, a state President Donald Trump won in 2016, non-white voters and voters with household incomes of less than $50,000 were more likely to back former Vice President Joe Biden, according to preliminary data from the Associated Press’ VoteCast survey. More than three-quarters of non-white ...

  • Amid COVID-19 pandemic, Wisconsin voters choose Biden over Trump

    Amid COVID-19 pandemic, Wisconsin voters choose Biden over Trump

    Nov 04, 2020 11:44 PM EDT

    ... presidential election. Sixty-eight percent said they backed Biden compared to 32 percent who were for Trump, according to preliminary data from the Associated Press’ VoteCast survey Wednesday. Nationwide, 62 percent of Americans who had lost a loved one to the pandemic said they voted for Biden, according to VoteCast ...

  • How Mexican American voters helped turn Arizona blue

    How Mexican American voters helped turn Arizona blue

    Nov 04, 2020 06:21 PM EDT

    Joe Biden flipped the state of Arizona blue for the first time in decades, boosted in part by a large share of votes cast by Mexican Americans, according to AP’s VoteCast survey. Overall, Latinos make up 23.6 percent of eligible voters in this border state, and a third ...

  • Trump holds onto Ohio but loses suburban support

    Trump holds onto Ohio but loses suburban support

    Nov 04, 2020 04:35 PM EDT

    President Donald Trump kept the state of Ohio in his reelection bid, but narrowly lost the suburban vote to former Vice President Joe Biden, according to preliminary data from the Associated Press’ VoteCast survey. Suburban voters split between the two candidates, giving the Democrat the slight lead at 50 percent ...

  • Dems head toward House control, but lose incumbents to GOP

    Dems head toward House control, but lose incumbents to GOP

    Nov 04, 2020 04:32 PM EDT

    ... against pedophiles in government. Hanging over the contests were the coronavirus pandemic and the wounded economy, which voters ranked as top concerns, according to AP VoteCast, a national survey of the electorate. The virus has killed 232,000 people in the U.S. and cases are rising in nearly every ...

  • Maine's Biden voters want to see Affordable Care Act stay in place

    Maine's Biden voters want to see Affordable Care Act stay in place

    Nov 04, 2020 02:24 PM EDT

    A majority of Maine voters say the Affordable Care Act should be left as-is or expanded, according to the Associated Press’ VoteCast survey. Fifty-four percent favor the law, while another 44 percent said it should be repealed or weakened. Former Vice President Joe Biden won the state overnight ...