The leading Republican candidate for Senate in North Carolina has a seven-point advantage over incumbent Democrat Kay Hagan, according to a new poll from Rassmussen Reports.

Forty-seven percent of the 500 likely voters polled said they would support Thom Tillis, the speaker of the North Carolina house, while 40 percent said they would support Hagan. Another Republican candidate, Greg Brannon, also polled ahead of Hagan, getting 43 percent to Hagan’s 39 percent. Here’s more on North Carolina and its politics from Rasumssen: