- Just days before the 2020 Presidential Election, Joe Biden saw a 3% increase in his overall college student support (69% to 72%) while President Trump saw his overall college student support decrease to 20%.
- President Trump saw his Asian college student support increase by 5% last week (9% to 14%).
- Joe Biden saw a 4% increase in his Weak Republican college student support last week (13% to 17%).
On a weekly basis, Chegg–in partnership with College Pulse–surveyed over 1,500 college students across the United States on the 2020 presidential election. Every Thursday, we updated this page with the latest survey data, offering an in-depth guide to how the race for the Democratic nomination was shaping up among college students.
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Click here to see our past results from the Democratic Primary.
Tracking the Election Over Time
The results are based on undergraduate college students nationwide. Hover over or click each line to track how students’ general election candidate preference changed week to week.
If the 2020 election for President were held today, would you vote for Joe Biden, the presumed Democratic candidate, would you vote for Donald Trump, the Republican candidate or would you not vote?
Who’s Leading in the General Election
To breakdown candidate support, select a demographic below.
If the 2020 election for President were held today, would you vote for Joe Biden, the presumed Democratic candidate, would you vote for Donald Trump, the Republican candidate or would you not vote?
General Election Predictions
The results are based on undergraduate college students nationwide. Hover over or click each line to track how predictions for Trump’s reelection changed week to week.
Just your best guess: As of today, do you think Donald Trump will be reelected president in 2020, or not?
Looking Back at the Democratic Primary
The results are based on Democratic and Democratic-leaning undergraduates nationwide. Hover over or click each line to track how support for candidates changed week to week. Click the dot next to a candidates name to remove their data from the infographic.
Regardless of who you may support in the upcoming 2020 presidential election, who would you most like to be the Democratic nominee for President?
Methodology
About Chegg/College Pulse Election Tracker: On a weekly basis, the Chegg/College Pulse Student Election Tracker surveyed over 1,500 full-time and part-time students attending two and four-year colleges or universities across the United States who are part of College Pulse’s American College Student Panel™, which includes 250,000 undergraduate college student respondents from more than 800 two and four-year colleges and universities in all 50 states. Every data point used a weighted rolling average of the surveys from the previous three weeks’ surveys.
Each week, we released a report with the most important findings from the tracker and other student insights.
For media inquiries or to learn more about College Pulse, please contact press@collegepulse.com.
Change-log
– April 23, 2019. Added the following candidates as Democratic candidate options: “Gov. Jay Inslee”, “Rep. John Delaney”, “Former Gov. John Hickenlooper”, “Mayor Pete Buttigieg”, “Gov. Steve Bullock”, “Former Gov. Terry McAuliffe”, “Rep. Tim Ryan”, “Andrew Yang”
– July 2, 2019. Added the following candidates as Democratic candidate options: “Marianne Williamson”, “Mayor Bill de Blasio”, “Sen. Michael Bennet”, “Rep. Eric Swalwell”
– July 16, 2019. Set up a geographic filter to limit responses to US-based respondents
– August 13, 2019: Removed ex-candidates Terry McAuliffe and Eric Swallwell from tracker
– October 15, 2019: Removed ex-candidate Bill de Blasio
– October 29, 2019: Removed ex-candidate Tim Ryan
– November 5, 2019: Removed ex-candidate Beto O’Rourke
– November 12, 2019: Added candidate Michael Bloomberg
– November 19, 2019: Added candidate Deval Patrick
– December 3, 2019: Removed ex-candidate Steve Bullock
– December 10, 2019: Removed ex-candidate Kamala Harris
– January 9, 2020: Removed ex-candidate Julian Castro
– January 14, 2020: Removed ex-candidates Cory Booker and Marianne Williamson
– February 4, 2020: Removed ex-candidate John Delaney
– February 18, 2020: Removed ex-candidates Michael Bennet, Andrew Yang, and Deval Patrick
– March 5, 2020: Removed ex-candidates Pete Buttigieg, Amy Klobuchar, and Tom Steyer
– March 10, 2020: Removed ex-candidates Elizabeth Warren and Michael Bloomberg
