Voters felt that President Joe Biden was “better at dealing with the coronavirus” than Trump, according to a post-2020 election analysis of publicly available poll data from Trump campaign researcher Tony Fabrizio. The pandemic “was the most important issue” among voters in 10 key states and that Biden took those voters “almost 3 to 1”, said Fabrizio in a 27-page analysis based on the average National Election poll results Pool performed during CNN and other media, as well as AP’s VoteCast.
“While (Trump) dominated voters with a focus on the economy, Biden won over voters from Coronavirus, which was a larger portion of the electorate,” said the report, dated December 2020. It surfaced on Monday night after that Politico first reported this.
The 10 states that Fabrizio focused on were Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Florida, Iowa, North Carolina, Ohio and Texas. Biden and Trump won five each. Although his work approval was mixed across these 10 states, Trump “got negative marks in handling Coronavirus,” the report said.
Three-quarters of voters in the 10 states favored mask mandates and “Biden raised the score with this vast majority of voters,” according to the report. Trump has often refused to wear facial coverage in public, at one point mocking the use of a mask, and opposed a federal mask order.
Fabrizio also concluded that “Biden had a double-digit advantage over POTUS” over whether voters considered the candidate honest or trustworthy, although most voters did not perceive either candidate that way.
Fabrizio also said that Americans absolutely trust the country’s leading infectious disease specialist, Dr. Anthony Fauci, on the pandemic, with a “positive 3 to 1 approval” to deal with it.
Fauci’s detractors voted overwhelmingly for Trump, the report said, but “Fauci’s supporters voted for Biden by a wide margin.”
