Initial exit poll results in Georgia show former President Donald Trump leading with men by a 12 percentage point advantage and Vice President Kamala Harris leading with women voters by 7 percentage points, according to the National Election Pool conducted by Edison Research.
Georgia, one of the most sought-after battleground states, will cast 16 votes in the Electoral College. President Joe Biden carried the Peach State in 2020.
The results are considered preliminary and will be updated as results continue to arrive.
By race, Trump is winning with white voters by a 43 percentage point margin. Harris has a wide advantage with Black voters, where she leads by 74 percentage points, and Latino voters, with a 13 percentage point advantage. Among those who said their racial identity does not fit into the aforementioned groups, Trump leads Harris by 15 percentage points.
By age, Trump is leading with voters aged 45 to 64, and those older than 64, while Harris has the advantage with younger voters. Harris’s widest lead is in the 18-29 age group, where she’s ahead of Trump by 20 percentage points.
Voters with a college education are more likely to back the Democratic Party’s presidential candidate, while those without a college degree are more likely to vote for the Republican Party’s candidate. According to the NEP exit poll, Trump leads the cohort without a college degree by 11 percentage points, while Harris leads the college degree-holding group with a 12 percentage point advantage over Trump.
Harris is also winning with first-time voters. The Georgia exit poll results show that 53 percent of first-time voters cast a ballot for Harris, while 46 percent voted for Trump.
However, more Georgians switched their vote to support Trump than they did to support Harris. According to the NEP Exit Poll, 6 percent of voters who backed Biden in 2020 switched to Trump in 2024, while only 2 percent of 2020 Trump voters defected to Harris this year.
