Democrat Catherine Cortez Masto leads seven points ahead of incumbent Rep. Joe Heck (R-NV) in a new CNN/ORC poll of the U.S. Senate election in Nevada.
The race to fill Sen. Harry Reid’s (D-NV) seat in the U.S. Senate has yielded contested poll results, and is considered important for Democrats looking to take the senate majority.
Cortez Masto, a former Nevada Attorney General, leads the poll, 52-45 among likely Nevada voters.
CNN/ORC has not previously surveyed Nevada voters about the U.S. Senate election, but a recent CBS/YouGov poll of likely voters showed the two candidates tied at 39 percent.
The CNN/ORC poll was conducted via live telephone interview Oct. 10-15 among 698 likely Nevada voters and has a margin of error of plus or minus 3.5 percent.
TPM’s PollTracker Average for the U.S. Senate election in Nevada shows Cortez Masto leading Heck, 45.2 to 41.2.
The effect of dissing Trump?
It could be. Perhaps Heck hasn’t perfected his version of the “You need elect me so I can obstruct Hillary’s crazy feminazi ultra-left agenda!!!” spiel.