Poll shows McSally, Kelly tied in Arizona Senate race
A new poll conducted in the days after retired astronaut Mark Kelly (D) said he would run for a U.S. Senate seat puts him in a statistical tie with Sen. Martha McSally (R).
The survey, conducted Tuesday and Wednesday by the Phoenix-based firm OH Predictive Insights, found McSally leading Kelly by a 46 percent to 44 percent margin. That edge is well within the poll’s 4 percentage point margin of error.
Kelly said Tuesday he would run for the seat. Kelly, the husband of former Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-Ariz.), has never run for political office before. His campaign said he raised $1.1 million in the first day after he announced, a whopping fundraising haul that will rival some presidential candidates.
After a bruising run for Arizona’s other Senate seat in 2018, which she lost to Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (D) by a little more than 2 percentage points, few Arizonans do not have an opinion of McSally. Fifty-one percent of state voters see her favorably, while 42 percent see her in an unfavorable light, the poll found.
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