NBC Poll: Gillum Up 5 Points On DeSantis, Nelson Leads Scott By 3

Andrew Gillum the Democratic candidate for Florida Governor speaks during a campaign rally at the International Union of Painters and Allied Trades on August 31, 2018 in Orlando, Florida. Mr. Gillum is facing off against his Republican challenger Rep. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) in the November 6th election.
ORLANDO, FL - AUGUST 31: Andrew Gillum the Democratic candidate for Florida Governor embraces Sen. Bill Nelson (D-FL) during a campaign rally at the International Union of Painters and Allied Trades on August 31, 20... ORLANDO, FL - AUGUST 31: Andrew Gillum the Democratic candidate for Florida Governor embraces Sen. Bill Nelson (D-FL) during a campaign rally at the International Union of Painters and Allied Trades on August 31, 2018 in Orlando, Florida. Mr. Gillum is facing off against his Republican challenger Rep. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) in the November 6th election and Mr. Nelson is facing off against Republican Florida Governor Rick Scott for the Florida Senate seat. (Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images) MORE LESS
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Democrats are heading into the final six-week stretch before the midterms with leads in both of Florida’s crucial top-of-ticket races, according to a NBC News/Marist poll out Tuesday.

Democratic Sen. Bill Nelson leads Republicans Gov. Rick Scott 48 percent to 45 percent among likely voters in the Senate race. Democratic gubernatorial nominee Andrew Gillum leads Republican Rep. Ron DeSantis by 5 points, 48 percent to 43 percent.

“The political environment in Florida, overall, is tipping in the Democrats favor,” Lee Miringoff, director of the Marist College Institute for Public Opinion, said of the survey results.

Both races are closely-watched and highly-competitive. The Senate contest could prove decisive in which party takes control of the chamber, while the governor’s race pits a progressive vying to become the state’s first black governor against a diehard Trump ally.

The NBC/Marist results are in line with a number of other recent polls of likely Florida voters. Those surveys have showed Scott and Nelson in almost a dead heat, with Gillum more substantially edging out DeSantis.

A slight outlier is a Quinnipiac University poll released Monday that showed Nelson ahead of Scott 53 to 46 percent.

The NBC/Marist poll was conducted Sept. 16-20 among 600 likely voters. The margin of error is 4.7 percentage points.

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  1. Hey, some good news for a change. Nice.

  2. The Florida Republican party is apparently full of criminals and racists, as shown by the two at the head of the ticket this election. Hopefully Florida sees through them and sends the Democrats into office, both are hugely important wins for the Democrats to pull out.

  3. It’s just so crazy given the current situation with what is happening and who is running and the environmental damage that is happening in FL that they are only up by such a small amount.

  4. Avatar for outis outis says:

    And Politico has an article saying that Nelson is in peril because he is behind in older Hispanic voters. That makes me feel much better about this poll from NBC because it shows that Politico has to focus on a specific demographic to get a horse-race story.

  5. What can we say? Some idiots just love taking afternoon walks in oil-tainted waters or in waterways being choked off by algae blooms caused by runoff and outright dumping. It’s a Republican’s dream, evidently.

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