ABC News is reporting preliminary results from exit-poll data.
Broad economic discontent, sharp divisions about the nation's future and polarized views of the major-party candidates mark voter attitudes nationally in ABC News preliminary exit poll results of theThe state of democracy prevailed narrowly as the most important issue to voters out of five tested in the exit poll.
Underscoring the emotion associated with the contest, preliminarily 36% of voters say they'd be "scared" if Trump were elected, while 29% would be scared by a Harris win. Trump is more trusted than Harris on immigration and the economy in the preliminary exit polls while Harris leads Trump in trust on abortion.
Thirty percent of Georgia voters in these preliminary results are Black, on par with the share in 2020 and the most of any swing state. Georgia voters overall divide evenly between Harris and Trump in trust to handle racial issues, 50%-48%; 32% of white voters pick Harris on this question, rising to 89% of Black voters.
Nearly 4 in 10 voters are conservative and 31% are white evangelical Christians, 9 points more than their share nationally, At the same time, 60% of North Carolina voters say abortion should be legal in all or most cases.Pennsylvania may be this year's tipping-point state. After voting for Trump by less than 1 percentage point in 2016, the aptly nicknamed Keystone State flipped to Biden in 2020, when he edged out Trump by just over 1 point -- or roughly 80,500 votes.
More voters favor than oppose the use of fracking in Pennsylvania, 55%-36%. Harris has said she won't ban fracking if elected; she's been criticized for reversing her position on the issue since her first presidential run.Trump's narrow victory in Michigan in 2016 marked the only time a Republican presidential candidate carried the state since 1988.
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