These findings are from the ERC’s third set of 2020 battleground … Dems asking courts ahead of election. In Wisconsin, a swing state with a Democratic governor and a Republican legislature, an April 7 election for a state Supreme Court seat, the federal presidential primaries for both the Democratic and Republican parties, and several other judicial and local elections went ahead as scheduled. A Hill/HarrisX poll conducted Aug. 25-28 found Biden up 47%-38% over Trump and an Economist/YouGov survey conducted Aug. 23-25 found Biden up 50%-41%. Morning Consult said that daily tracking poll reflected a "post-convention bump" that "proved to be fleeting.". [2] In a joint statement afterwards, Wisconsin's state Assembly Speaker Robin Vos and Senate Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald criticized Evers for attempting to postpone the election, for not calling a special session earlier, and for reversing his previous position on keeping the election date intact. Results are similar among likely voters. This ABC News/Washington Post poll was conducted by landline and cellular telephone interviews Sept. 8-13, 2020, among random samples of 705 Minnesota registered voters, including 615 likely voters; and 702 Wisconsin registered voters, including 605 likely voters. That gap in Minnesota overwhelms a dead heat in trust on the economy. In Milwaukee County Branch 5, incumbent Judge Paul Dedinsky, appointed by Governor, In Milwaukee County Branch 29, incumbent Daniel Gabler, appointed by Governor. With both states permitting no-excuse absentee voting, the most popular early voting method is by mail, preferred by 21% in Wisconsin and 24% in Minnesota. Today likely voters age 65 and older divide by 64%-35% for Biden over Trump in Minnesota and by 58%-41% in Wisconsin. Michael Patrick Leahy 27 Aug 2020. Nate Silver, FiveThirtyEight's editor-in-chief cautioned "the set of polls out over the past couple weeks is of somewhat uneven quality, and really no live-caller polls at all. Calculated by taking the difference of 100% and all other candidates combined. Some ensuing protests turned violent, with arson and lootingpunctuated by the fatal shooting of two protesters in Kenosha. © Copyright 2003-2020:  Scott Elliott, All Rights Reserved. A special election was held on May 12, 2020, to fill the vacancy in Wisconsin's 7th congressional district. Statewide election dates. Two major elections will be held in the U.S. state of Wisconsin in 2020. Emerson is also the only pollster to currently find Trump with a higher percentage of voters approving (49%) of the job he's doing than disapproving (47%).

[19] Vos, the state Assembly Speaker, served as an election inspector for in-person voting on April 7. Wisconsin 2020: Biden Maintains Seven-Point Lead. Suburban likely voters pick Trump by a non-significant 9 points in Wisconsin, compared with a 16-point lead for Biden in the Minnesota suburbs. Silver noted that the candidate leading polling averages in August often went on to win the race since 1976, with three notable exceptions: Massachusetts Gov. And a recent poll from the Trafalgar Group found Trump up over Biden in Michigan, 47%-45%, a 9-point difference from the Morning Consult poll. In the 2020 Republican Party presidential primaries, the Wisconsin Republican presidential preference primary was also on the April 7 ballot. In Wisconsin, it's a close 46%-52%. The RealClearPolitics average of national polls has Biden up 6.2%, which is down from 9.3 points at the end of July and nearly 10 points at the end of June. Statewide election dates in Wisconsin are listed below. Three seats on the Wisconsin Court of Appeals were up for election in 2020. Further, both states have been gripped by protests over police treatment of Black people after the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis in May and the shooting of Jacob Blake in Kenosha, Wisconsin, last month. The race is tighter in the historically competitive eastern Twin Cities suburbs and in the south, where Biden's lead narrows to non-significant 10- and 12-point margins, respectively. Two major elections will be held in the U.S. state of Wisconsin in 2020. Trafalgar was one of the few pollsters to correctly predict Trump's 2016 upset over Clinton in Michigan. "No one will be safe in Biden’s America. Tightening it further, to only very enthusiastic supporters, puts Trump slightly ahead in Wisconsin and essentially tied in Minnesota. All of the 99 seats in the Wisconsin State Assembly are up for election in 2020. are registered trademarks of Newsmax Media, Inc. Newsmax TV, and Newsmax World are trademarks of Newsmax Media, Inc. President Donald Trump is lagging behind Democrat presidential candidate Joe Biden by seven points in the latest poll of likely voters in Wisconsin from Emerson College and NewsNation. Polls: Wisconsin Moving Towards Trump Even Before Kenosha Riots 13,430 AP Photo/Morry Gash.