Trump voters heavily favored the economy as the most important issue to their vote, with around 3 in 5 saying so, according to early exit polls. The issue of crime and safety followed at a distance for those voters.
One-third of voters who back Joe Biden, meanwhile, said racial inequality was their most important issue, followed by almost 3 in 10 who said it was coronavirus, 1 in 10 who said health care policy, and 1 in 10 who said the economy.
About this year's exit polls: CNN's exit polls this year incorporate in-person interviews at early voting locations and telephone interviews to target by-mail voters. Those surveys are in addition to the in-person interviews with voters on Tuesday. In every state where exit poll results are available on election night, there will be a combined result to reflect a complete picture of voters across the country.
To account for the large share of early in-person voters in critical states such as North Carolina, Florida and Texas, Edison Research has spent the past month conducting the same type of in-person interviewing that it does on Election Day at a random selection of early voting locations around eight states.
Read more about exit polls during a pandemic here.