Harris leads Trump in Virginia, Post-Schar School poll finds

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

87% : Most voters who say the economy, immigration, crime and taxes are extremely important to their vote support Trump while majorities of voters who say health care and abortion are extremely important support Harris.
87% : Harris enjoys 96 percent support from Democrats while Trump has the support of 89 percent of Republicans.
73% : Barack Obama won the state by six points in 2008 and again in 2012 by a smaller margin, while Hillary Clinton won by five points in 2016 and Biden won the commonwealth by 10 points over Trump four years ago.
70% : Trump, with the support of Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin (R), has continued to assert that the state is "in play" this year, and plans to lead a rally outside Roanoke on Nov. 2.
68% : Male likely voters support Trump by a six-point margin, while women support Harris by a wider 16 points.
67% : And Trump has majority support in the central and western parts of the state, though those margins have slimmed for him since September as well.
61% : By wide margins, Virginia registered voters say Harris will do a better job handling health care and abortion than Trump.
61% : While Harris's support among Black voters has dipped, White voters support Trump by six points, similar to his eight-point margin among that group four years ago.
52% : Harris has the support of the 77 percent of voters who want legal status for undocumented immigrants; Trump has support from 85 percent of those who favor mass deportations.
51% : Those with some college education or less support Trump by 29 points.
47% : About a quarter of registered voters in Virginia say they have already cast their ballots and more of them support Harris (54 percent) than Trump (40 percent).
43% : Those voters support Harris over Trump by a 47-point margin.
39% : "That's the most discouraging of all, that such a large percentage of Trump Republicans [are] unwilling to accept the legitimacy of the outcome if it doesn't go their way," said Mark Rozell, dean of the Schar School of Policy and Government at George Mason University.
34% : Harris peels off support from 7 percent of Republicans while just 2 percent of Democrats defect to Trump, which helps her edge, as independents tilt slightly toward Trump.
32% : But Trump has a slight lead on handling the economy -- 48 percent compared with 43 percent for Harris -- the issue that ranks highest in importance for voters in the state.
24% : Harris leads Trump 49 percent to 43 percent in the presidential race, and with a 3.5-point margin of error their ranges of possible support overlap slightly.
22% : Trump has a 76-point margin among the 26 percent of voters who say abortion should be always or mostly illegal.
21% : Among voters who say they are certain to turn out but have not yet voted, the contest is almost evenly split between Harris (47 percent) and Trump (45 percent).

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