Florida Republican Senate nominee Rick Scott pulled ahead of Democratic incumbent Sen. Bill Nelson just days before Election Day, according to a poll released this weekend.
But Scott, Florida’s governor, only has a 1.6 percentage point advantage on Nelson in what is the most expensive Senate race of the 2018 midterm election cycle, St. Pete Polls reported Saturday. Less than 4 percent of likely voters remain undecided in the final week of the campaign before Nov. 6.
While the new survey is good news for Republicans hoping to shore up the GOP’s majority in the Senate, RealClearPolitics’ poll aggregator still has Nelson up by 1.4 percentage points.
The same study by St. Pete Polls over the weekend found Florida Democratic gubernatorial candidate Andrew Gillum leading his Republican opponent Rep. Ron DeSantis by 2 percentage points. In that race too, only a handful of voters don’t know for whom they intend to cast a ballot on Tuesday. Gillum leads in RealClearPolitics’ poll aggregator.
St. Pete Polls surveyed 2,733 likely Florida voters between Nov. 1 and 2 via an automated phone call system. The research’s results have a margin of error of 1.9 percentage points.
