Colorado polls: How Donald Trump and Joe Biden are polling in the 2020 presidential election
UPDATED: 8/26/2020
The presidential contest in Colorado is a must-win for Democrat Joe Biden if he wants to take the White House, but President Donald Trump is making noise about playing the spoiler.
To get a sense of where the 2020 presidential election stands, The Sun is tracking the latest state-level polls showing the approval ratings for the Republican and Democratic candidates and the head-to-head contest.
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Trump’s numbers in Colorado are not enviable, an analysis of polling data by The Colorado Sun shows. The last time a Republican presidential candidate won Colorado’s electoral votes came in 2004. Trump lost Colorado by 4.9 percentage points in 2016.
At the start of August, Biden holds an average 11.7 percentage point lead over Trump. Biden’s approval rating averages 45% with 47% disapproval, but only includes two polls. Trump’s average approval rating is 40% with 56% disapproval since taking office in 2017, the analysis shows.
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How to read the numbers: The polls featured are all publicly available figures obtained by The Sun or posted online. For the surveys, the pollsters use a variety of methodologies and different projections for voter turnout in November, making some more reliable than the others. The Sun does not weight polls based on their reliability but collectively the numbers provide an average. To learn more about the pollsters effectiveness, check the FiveThirtyEight ratings.
Staff writers Lauren Irwin and Sandra Fish contributed to this report.
2020 presidential election: Donald Trump v. Joe Biden
A look at head-to-head polling in Colorado between the Republican president and Democratic challenger.
The numbers may not equal 100 due to rounding by the pollsters.
— The pollster did not ask this element of the question or provide the data.
THE POLLS
President Donald Trump’s approval rating in Colorado
Since taking office in January 2017, Trump’s job approval rating in Colorado faltered as his disapproval rises.
The numbers may not equal 100 due to rounding by the pollsters.
* This pollster asked whether voters had a favorable or unfavorable view of President Donald Trump. Even though the question wording was different, other recent polling in Colorado has shown the question produces results that effectively mirror approval or disapproval.
— The pollster did not ask this element of the question or provide the data.
Democrat Joe Biden’s approval rating in Colorado
The polling in Colorado on Biden’s approval rating as a candidate is limited so far with two polls showing shifting fortunes in the Democrat’s favor.
The numbers may not equal 100 due to rounding by the pollsters.
* This pollster asked whether voters had a favorable or unfavorable view of President Donald Trump. Even though the question wording was different, other recent polling in Colorado has shown the question produces results that effectively mirror approval or disapproval.
— The pollster did not ask this element of the question or provide the data.
THE POLLS
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