President Donald Trump's prospects of a 2020 re-election is a topic of partisan divide, as both Democrats and Republicans are confident at this point, making for what figures to be another very close race in a year and a half, according to the latest NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll.
"It's a 45-55 against the president at this stage of the game," Democratic pollster Peter Hart says.
While just 4 in 10 voters would re-elect President Trump, according to the poll, President Trump's approval is near a high-water mark at 46 percent, and a strong economy and the backing of nearly 90 percent of Republicans are signs in the incumbent's favor.
"As long as these economic numbers look like this, that always keeps an incumbent president in the race," according to GOP pollster Bill McInturff.
President Trump has the approval of Republicans (88 percent), rural residents (60 percent), whites without college degrees (60 percent), men (54 percent), and whites overall (54 percent), according to the poll.
Disapproving of President Trump in the poll were: African Americans (88 percent), Latinos (64 percent), women (61 percent), those ages 18-34 (57 percent), whites with college degrees (55 percent), and independents (51 percent).
Still, the election will come down to President Trump opponent, Democratic pollster Fred Yang says.
"Another lesson we painfully learned from 2016 is that elections are a choice between candidates and not a referendum on one candidate," he said.
The NBC/WSJ poll was conducted Feb. 24-27 among 900 adults with a margin of error of plus or minus 3.27 percentage points.
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