Attention to Election Reverts to Pre-Primary Level

With Joe Biden effectively securing the 2020 Democratic nomination in early April and the coronavirus crisis eclipsing news about the election, Americans’ attention to the presidential campaign has waned, Gallup finds.

Fifty-nine percent of U.S. adults polled, down from 67% in mid-February, said they had given “quite a lot” of thought to the upcoming election for president.

Americans’ attention to the campaign is now essentially back to the level recorded from last August through mid-January, before the presidential primaries got underway.