A quarter of voters admit their Biden-Trump choice could change by November as most plan to watch first debate

More than a quarter of voters may still change their minds on who to back in November, a new poll shows.

Nine percent said in an NPR/Marist poll that they have yet to make up their minds and an additional 25 percent said that while they have a “good idea” of who they will back, they could still change their mind.

The director of the Marist College Institute for Public Opinion, Lee Miringoff, told NPR that this “taps into the notion that there are still a lot of months to go.”

Meanwhile, 61 percent of survey respondents said they will watch next week’s debate between Donald Trump and Joe Biden. Another 24 percent said they wouldn’t watch the debate but would follow the resulting news coverage and 14 percent showed no interest.

Independents were less likely to say they would watch the debate compared to Republicans and Democrats.

Miringoff noted that since the debates and party conventions have yet to take place, voters are more open to wait and see what happens “even if they do end up right back where they were because they interpret these events in ways that reinforce what they already think.”

Younger and nonwhite voters were more likely to tell the pollsters that their vote was still up for grabs – 55 percent of both groups said they were unsure who they would vote for.

Trump and Biden are tied in the poll at 49 percent each in a head-to-head matchup. Biden is making progress with independent voters, going from 42 percent last month to 49 percent in June.

Miringoff said this may be connected to Trump’s legal woes. The former president was found guilty on 34 felony counts of falsifying business records to corruptly influence the 2016 election after he covered up a hush money payment to adult actor Stormy Daniels to