Senate Poll Shows Demings And Rubio In Dead Heat

Florida Politics reports:

Numbers from Progress Florida and Florida Watch show Sen. Marco Rubio and Democratic challenger Val Demings tied, each with 45% support from those polled. Demings holds even with Rubio in the polling despite remaining an unknown quantity to more than a third of Florida voters.

Gauging the favorability of both candidates, pollsters from The Hub found 36% of voters have a favorable view of the Orlando Congresswoman, 30% hold an unfavorable view and 34% said they could not rate her. Pollsters found 52% of voters hold an unfavorable view of Rubio, while just 43% hold a favorable view.

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Of note, Rubio’s polling average is +9 at Real Clear Politics.