Sen. Mark Warner (D-VA) holds a commanding 14-point lead over Republican opponent Ed Gillespie in the Virginia Senate race according to a new Rasmussen Reports survey released Thursday.
The poll found Warner with 51 percent support to the former RNC Chair and Bush adviser’s 37 percent among likely Virginia voters. Two percent of those surveyed picked another candidate in the race and 9 percent said they were undecided.
A separate poll of Virginia voters by the Watson Center for Public Policy at Christopher Newport University also found Warner with a comfortable lead. That poll found Warner leading Gillespie 50 percent to 30 percent among Virginia voters.
The Rasmussen and Watson Center findings come just two days after another poll, this one by Roanoke College, found Warner with a wide lead over Gillespie in the Senate race. That poll found Warner with 50 percent support to Gillespie’s 21 percent support.
Republicans have seen a pickup of Warner’s seat as a long shot but still indicated that Gillespie, the former chairman of the Republican National Committee, is likely the best candidate to try and defeat Warner.
