Initial CNN Exit Poll: Georgia independent voters favor Trump over Harris

 Vice President Kamala Harris is largely holding on to President Joe Biden’s 2020 coalition among young voters and Black voters in Georgia, according to the initial results of CNN’s exit poll among voters in the state. But Peach State voters who call themselves political independents now favor former President Donald Trump over Harris — a shift from 2020 when Biden won that group.

Roughly 86% of Black Georgia voters say they cast their ballot for Harris, as do about 6 in 10 voters younger than 30 — in both cases, generally similar to Biden’s numbers in 2020.

As was the case in 2020, suburban voters are closely split. But where Biden won slightly over half of political independents in 2020, now a slim majority say they’re backing Trump.