North Carolina Sen. Thom Tillis might be making a comeback in his race against Democrat Cal Cunningham, who is navigating a cheating scandal.
Tillis is 1 percentage point ahead of Cunningham, a poll from East Carolina University showed.
Forty-six percent of likely voters surveyed said they would vote for Tillis, while 44.9% said they would vote for Cunningham. About 3% said they would vote for someone else, and just under 6% said they were undecided.
Tillis has been trailing his Democratic opponent by several points since voters began being interviewed in February. The last poll that showed Tillis above Cunningham was conducted in June.
On Friday, Cunningham admitted to sending texts of a sexual nature to a woman who was not his wife. Reporting indicates that he might have had an affair with another woman as well.
The ECU poll was taken from Oct. 2 to 4 and included 1,232 likely voters in the state. The margin of error was 3.2 percentage points. Some of the respondents were interviewed by phone while others were surveyed online. Online polling is not the preferred method of information collection by some pollsters, as many say such methods are unreliable.
Public Policy Polling conducted a survey from Oct. 4 to 5, in which 48% of respondents said they would vote for Cunningham and 42% said they would vote for Tillis.
