Marist Poll: John McCain Leads Democratic Challenger by 19 Points

The latest NBC/Wall Street Journal Marist poll should quiet down the chatter that John McCain could lose his Senate seat: The Arizona senator leads his Democratic challenger 57 percent to 38 percent.

The Marist survey is the first public poll released since McCain won his primary on August 30. There had been some fear among Republicans that with Trump at the top of the ticket Arizona could turn into a battleground state, and McCain, who just turned 80, could be one of the senators taken down in an anti-Trump wave. If this Marist poll is anywhere close to being correct, it appears those fears are unwarranted.