More news out of Pennsylvania:
The PA Senate is actually even closer than the top-ballot contest.
Harper has this race tied at 42-42. It’s worth pointing out that they included Libertarian Party nominee Edward Clifford in their survey and he got eight percent. Another eight percent were undecided.
Meanwhile, Mercyhurst has Toomey with a 43-42 advantage over McGinty. Fifteen percent said they didn’t know and an additional one percent refused.
Forty-two days out, these races couldn’t be much tighter.
Harper Polling surveyed 500 likely voters through landline interviews conducted using Interactive Voice Response (IVR). The poll took place between on September 21st and September 22nd. The margin of error is +/- 4.4%.
Mercyhurst University’s Center for Applied Politics surveyed 420 registered Pennsylvania voters through live interviews from September 12th to September 23rd. The margin of error is 4.8%.
And Toomey is still trying to walk his tight line with Trump:
In in a speech Monday, Toomey worked to strike a delicate balance between appealing to his conservative base and not alienating moderates. Most importantly for that strategy, Toomey is still distancing himself from his own party’s presidential nominee.
The senator has been notoriously evasive about his position on Trump, saying repeatedly that he’d like to eventually endorse Donald Trump, but can’t fully support him.
“I think it’s very important to Pennsylvanians that their senator be an independent voice,” Toomey said.
“And sometimes that means disagreeing with your own party. I have consistently demonstrated that I am willing to do that when I think my party or my party’s leadership is wrong.”
Toomey did say he thinks some good could be accomplished under a Trump presidency. But he also called Trump “offensive.”
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