Incumbent Democratic Sen. Tammy Baldwin is losing ground against Republican challenger Eric Hovde, in a few consecutive polls of her Wisconsin Senate race.
Likely Wisconsin voters still favor Baldwin over Hovde in three polls that were released recently, but her lead in a Marist poll on Thursday found she was only three points ahead of Hovde, 51-48%, according to Fox News. A Quinnipiac poll also showed her leading with 51% of the vote to Hovde’s 47%, and an AARP survey showed Baldwin leading 50% to 47%.
The new findings are closer than Hovde’s numbers in March, where a Quinnipiac poll found Hovde trailing Baldwin with 42% to her 54%. But he fared better in a New York Times/ Siena College poll in August where support for Hovde grew to 44% compared to Baldwin’s 51%.
The polls come less than seven weeks before election day, which falls on Nov. 5 this year. Wisconsin is considered a battleground state, but the Senate race is labeled as “lean Democrat” by the nonpartisan Cook Political Report. […]
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