Just 15 percent of registered voters said they don't tend to wear a mask - the president leads Biden with those voters 83-7 percent.īiden and Trump have sparred on whether it's appropriate to wear a mask. Perhaps most unsurprisingly, the voters who say the never or rarely wear a mask are nearly all in support of the president. Citizenship and Immigration Service's Kendall office on Jin Miami, Florida. Giagnna Mendez, originally from Peru, wearing a mask to protect against the coronavirus participates in a swearing in ceremony to become an American citizen held at the U.S. Twenty-one percent of voters said they "sometimes" wear a mask - and Trump leads those voters by 32 points: 62 percent to 30 percent.
Joe Biden, the presumptive Democratic nominee, leads President Trump by 40 points among those voters: 66 percent to 26 percent.Īnd voters who don't wear a mask are nearly just as likely to vote for the president as mask-wearers are to vote for Biden. Sixty-three percent of registered voters said they "always" wear a mask when they're in public - like when they go shopping, go to work or be around other people outside of their house.
WASHINGTON - The latest NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll shows that a person's mask-wearing habits could indicate how they'll vote in the 2020 presidential race.