Incumbent Sen. Tammy Baldwin (D-Wis.) and her Republican challenger Eric Hovde are neck and neck within the Wisconsin Senate race, a brand new ballot exhibits.
The survey, launched Thursday from Emerson Faculty Polling/RealClearWorld, discovered Baldwin and Hovde every acquired 48 p.c help from possible voters within the Badger State. One other 3 p.c stated they might select another person, whereas below 1 p.c stated they had been nonetheless undecided, lower than two weeks from the election.
Wisconsin voters ranked the economic system, 41.5 p.c, as an important problem going into November. Threats to democracy, 16.8 p.c, abortion entry, 9.7 p.c, and immigration, 9 p.c, adopted behind, in accordance with the survey.
These had been key matters on the latest debate between the Senate hopefuls. Hovde particularly pointed to immigration as a key precedence if he is elected.
“We don’t know how many have come in, but it’s flooded our streets with fentanyl,” Hovde stated on the Oct. 18 discussion board, whereas criticizing the Biden administration for rising border crossings. “We have criminals that have entered into our country, and it’s created a humanitarian crisis.”
Nonetheless, Baldwin pushed again, blaming the rise in immigrants on Republicans after killing a bipartisan border invoice earlier this yr.
“It would have added 1,500 new border patrol agents to our southern border, and had it passed in this spring, they would be there now,” she replied.
The Hill/Resolution Desk HQ’s mixture of polls within the state present Baldwin with a 1.1-point lead over Hovde — 48.2 p.c to 47.1 p.c.
The Emerson/RealClearWord survey was performed Oct. 21-22 with 800 possible voters within the battleground state. The margin of error is plus or minus 3.4 proportion factors.
