Just as President Trump arrived in Cape Girardeau, Missouri to give a last minute boost to Republican Senate hopeful Josh Hawley, different polls gave conflicting results over his heated contest with Democratic Sen. Claire McCaskill.
An NBC/Marist poll released Monday morning showed McCaskill drawing 50 percent of the vote to 47 percent for Hawley, who has led in just about every poll since September. The margin of error is 5.2 percentage points.
Shortly after the NBC survey became public, Emerson released its own poll showing Hawley leading McCaskill by 49 to 46 percent.
In the last week, McCaskill has blitzed the airwaves with spots in which she repeatedly dubs herself a “moderate” and says “I am the middle.”
“And she got her friends at the [St. Louis] Post Dispatch and the Kansas City Star to launch an all-out assault on Josh over the past ten days,” former state House Speaker Tim Jones, now a radio and TV commentator in St. Louis, told Newsmax, “But Josh appears to have weathered the storm.”
John Gizzi is chief political columnist and White House correspondent for Newsmax. For more of his reports, Go Here Now.
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