Missouri now tied in shock Senate poll as McCaskill surges
by Allison Elyse Gualtieri
| November 03, 2018 12:47 PM
The Missouri Senate race looks to be a fight to the finish.
A new poll out Saturday shows incumbent Democratic Sen. Claire McCaskill and Republican challenger state Attorney General Josh Hawley tied at 47 percent among likely voters.
The poll from Missouri Scout was conducted Nov. 1-2, as President Trump visited the state for a rally in Columbia on Thursday. Hawley polled well ahead of McCaskill in Columbia, up by 12 points, and in deep-red Cape Girardeau, ahead 71-24 percent in the city where Trump's next Missouri rally is scheduled.
Green Party candidate Jo Crain, Independent Craig O'Dear, and Libertarian Japheth Campbell each garnered 1 percent. Three percent remained undecided in the survey, which had a margin of error of 2.6 percent.
The new poll supports the findings of a Fox News poll released earlier in the week, which also had the two candidates tied among likely voters. Hawley and McCaskill garnered 43 percent of polled likely voters each, with Crain at 1 percent and O'Dear with 3 percent. Nine percent were undecided in the survey, which had a margin of error of 3.5 percentage points.
In a two-candidate race, the poll showed McCaskill and Hawley still split likely voters evenly with 45 percent each. The poll was conducted Oct. 27-30, before Trump's rally.
Trump is set to return to the Show-Me State in his last stop ahead of the midterm elections. He will speak at a rally in Cape Girardeau on Monday night.
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