Poll: Hovde-Baldwin, Harris-Trump too close to call in Wisconsin
(The Center Square) – Wisconsin’s Senate race between incumbent Democrat Tammy Baldwin and Republican challenger Eric Hovde is too close to call, according to a new Quinnipiac Poll.
Baldwin has 49% support amount the 1,108 likely voters polled from Oct. 17-21 while Hovde saw 48% of the support in a poll with a 2.9% margin of error, making it too close to call.
That’s a tightening from an Oct. 9 poll that showed Baldwin with 50% support compared to 46% for Hovde. The toss-up call is similar to how the Cook Political Report sees the race. The two faced off in what was expected to be their only debate Friday evening.
The Quinnipiac Poll has run since 1994 and uses a random sampling of adults using random digit dialing with live interviewers calling both cell phones and land lines.
The poll also showed Donald Trump and Kamala Harris are tied with 48% support from likely voters in the presidential race in the state. All third party candidates received less than 1% support.
That compares to an Oct. 9 poll that showed Trump with 48% support and Harris with 46% support in Wisconsin.
The poll shows that Wisconsin women back Harris 57% to 39% while men back Trump 59% to 38%.
It showed that Trump has 52% support compared to Harris’ 47% on the economy, 50% prefer Harris to Trump’s 47% on preserving democracy while 54% in Wisconsin prefer Harris to 40% for Trump on abortion.
Voters were split 48% to 48% on whether Harris is considered honest while 56% say Trump is not honest and 40% believe that he is.
