Question:

Joe Biden leads Donald Trump by 14 points in a poll conducted by Public Policy Polling for NM Political Report.

The poll found that 53 percent of New Mexico voters said they will vote for Biden, a Democrat, while 39 percent say they will vote for Trump, a Republican. Another two percent said they would vote for Libertarian Party candidate Jo Jorgensen. Two percent said they would vote for someone else and 4 percent were not sure.

About this Poll

The poll was conducted on Sept. 30 and Oct. 1, the day after the contentious debate between the two candidates last week, which included frequent interruptions by the president and could result in changes to the structure of the next two scheduled debates. The poll was concluded before Trump announced that he tested positive for COVID-19.

The poll surveyed 886 New Mexico voters was condcuted through automated calls to landlines and text messages to cell-phone only voters and has a margin of error of +/- 3.3 percent. The margin of error on subsamples is larger.