(The Center Square) – Wisconsin’s Senate race between incumbent Democrat Tammy Baldwin and Republican challenger Eric Hovde are nearly dead even, polls from Emerson College and Trafalgar Group showed.
The results are like a Quinnipiac poll of 1,108 likely voters showing the two candidates are too close to call.
The Emerson College poll of 800 likely Wisconsin voters had each candidate at 48% support in a poll conducted Oct. 21-22 through contacting the cell phones of potential voters (61% of respondents) and an online panel of voters (39%).
The Emerson poll had Donald Trump with 49% support and Kamala Harris with 48% in the state. Nearly 65% of the 1.2% of undecided voters said that they lean toward Harris while 35% lean toward Trump.
The poll showed that nearly 42% of voters believe the economy is the most important issue facing the state while 17% said threats to democracy, 10% said abortion access and 9% each said immigration and housing affordability.
Of those surveyed, 46% said they voted for President Joe Biden in 2020 while nearly 46% said they voted for Trump.
The Trafalgar Republican-based poll showed Trump with a 0.2% lead over Harris in the state with 1.9% undecided and Hovde with a 0.4% lead over Baldwin with 3.4% undecided among 1,083 respondents between Oct. 18-20.
