Republican Sen. Thom Tillis is trailing Democratic challenger Cal Cunningham in their race to represent North Carolina in the Senate, according to another poll.
Cunningham has 47.3% support to Tillis’s 44.2%, while 6.1% of respondents remain undecided, a new Cardinal Point Analytics poll released Tuesday found.
Cunningham’s lead technically disappears if Cardinal Point Analytics’ margin of error of plus or minus 4.2 percentage points is taken into account. But the tight contest augurs well for Senate Democrats hoping to flip the balance of power in the chamber on Nov. 3. Democrats only need to gain three or four seats, if they hold onto Alabama.
Cunningham, a former state senator, is ahead of Tillis, who previously served as North Carolina’s House speaker before being elected to the Senate in 2014, by an average of 4.2 points, according to RealClearPolitics.
Cardinal Point Analytics’ poll also finds a close race at the top of the ticket in North Carolina. President Trump has a point advantage on presumptive 2020 Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden, 48.6% to 47.7%. Biden has an average 2-point edge on Trump as they vie for the battleground state’s 15 electoral votes, by RealClearPolitics’ count.
Cardinal Point Analytics surveyed 547 likely North Carolina voters from July 13-15 via landlines and cellphones for its research.
