EMILYs List Poll: Cheri Beasley Leads in North Carolina, Jeff Jackson Path Unclear

For Immediate Release
September 7, 2021

EMILY's List Poll: Cheri Beasley Leads in North Carolina, Jeff Jackson Path Unclear

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, EMILYs List, the nation’s largest resource for women in politics, released an internal poll of the primary election in North Carolina’s U.S. Senate race.
 
EMILYs List candidate Cheri Beasley leads state Sen. Jeff Jackson 33 to 24 in a head-to-head test. Likely Democratic primary voters are much more persuaded by Cheri’s biography and message, and after hearing about both candidates she grows her lead to 30 points, 53 to 23.
 
Katherine Patterson of Public Policy Polling also notes that: 

Cheri enjoys a net favorability of +30 points (36-6)
As voters hear more about the candidates, fewer report being undecided.

73% of primary voters say they are more likely to support Cheri after hearing about her background as chief justice of the North Carolina Supreme Court, and that she is running to protect voting rights, raise the minimum wage, and make health care more affordable.
37% say they are more likely to support Jackson after hearing about his background as a veteran, former assistant district attorney, and captain in the National Guard, and that he advocates for honesty and decency even if voters can’t agree on issues.

After hearing more about each candidate’s background and beliefs, Cheri Beasley leads Jeff Jackson by a 30-point margin (53-23), with just 23% still undecided.

The full memo is available here.

EMILYs List, the nation’s largest resource for women in politics, has raised over $700 million to elect Democratic pro-choice women candidates. With a grassroots community of over five million members, EMILY's List helps Democratic women win competitive campaigns – across the country and up and down the ballot – by recruiting and training candidates, supporting and helping build strong campaigns, researching the issues that impact women and families, running nearly $50 million in independent expenditures in the last cycle alone, and turning out women voters and voters of color to the polls. Since our founding in 1985, we have helped elect the country's first woman as vice president, 158 women to the House, 26 to the Senate, 16 governors, and more than 1,300 women to state and local office. More than 40 percent of the candidates EMILYs List has helped elect to Congress have been women of color. After the 2016 election, more than 60,000 women reached out to EMILY's List about running for office laying the groundwork for the next decade of candidates for local, state, and national offices. In our effort to elect more women in offices across the country, we have created our Run to Win program, expanded our training program, including a Training Center online, and trained thousands of women.