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MIAMI — Jacksonville voters don’t want the Republican National Committee’s convention to come to town, with most expressing concern that the event could spread the coronavirus.
A poll by the University of North Florida found that 58 percent of Jacksonville voters surveyed oppose the RNC convention, and 42 percent support it. Seventy-one percent said they were concerned the coronavirus would spread due to the convention, and 65 percent said they worried about “social unrest,” the poll showed.
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When broken down by party, the survey showed 81 percent of Republicans in favor of hosting the party’s keynote convention events in Jacksonville. About nine in 10 Democrats were opposed, as were 62 percent of independents.
“National nominating conventions are polarizing events, and unsurprisingly the levels of support for Jacksonville hosting the RNC varies dramatically by partisanship,” Michael Binder, director of the Jacksonville-based university’s Public Opinion Research Lab, said in a written statement. “Under the backdrop of a global pandemic that appears to have come more fervently to Florida, the opposition to this event being hosted locally seems much more concerning.”
The RNC this month said it would move its convention keynote events, including President Donald Trump’s acceptance speech, to Jacksonville after the party came to loggerheads with officials in North Carolina, where the event was set to be held in August.
Jacksonville, a Republican-leaning city that essentially encompasses all of Duval County, offered to host the event.
That decision has dented the favorability of Mayor Lenny Curry, a Republican who has earned high marks for leading the Northeast Florida city in a bipartisan way as its coronavirus caseload remained relatively low compared to South Florida.
The UNF poll showed 45 percent of voters approve of Curry’s job performance and 49 percent disapprove, giving him a net negative approval rating. Curry had a net positive job-approval rating of 9 points in a UNF poll in June.
Jacksonville voters surveyed gave Gov. Ron DeSantis, President Donald Trump’s top ally in the state, a job approval rating of 48 percent and a disapproval rating of 50 percent.
Trump fared the worst among those surveyed, with a 61 percent disapproval rating.
Trump, who carried Duval County by 1.4 percentage points in 2018, trailed his Democratic opponent Joe Biden by 7 points in the UNF poll.
Duval County has been trending blue, like many urban areas in the U.S. and DeSantis lost it by 4.3 percentage points in 2018.
UNF surveyed 2,524 registered Duval County voters by email between June 17-22. The survey has a margin of error margin of plus or minus 1.95 percent.
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