The poll found Laxalt with 50% support among very likely voters, compared to Cortez Masto’s 45%. 3% said they were undecided. When the poll incorporates those who said they were undecided but were asked to say who they were riding, Cortez Masto’s support rose slightly to 46 percent, while Laxalt’s support rose to 51 percent. Johnson leads Barnes by 3 points in Wisconsin Senate race: poll Fans wear ‘Fight Antisemitism’ jerseys at Nets game amid Kyrie Irving backlash When voters were asked who they expected to win the Nevada Senate race, regardless of who they supported, the survey showed an even tougher matchup: 51 percent said they expected Laxalt to win while 49 percent said they expected first-term senator to win. Nevada’s Senate race is seen as the Republicans’ best chance to pick up the upper chamber, with recent polling showing the two votes mostly within the margin of error. Cortez Masto, who made history in 2016 as the first Latina elected to the Senate, is trying to fight local and national headwinds given how the issue of inflation and the economy has particularly affected the state’s tourism-dominated industries and the hospitality. The Emerson College Polling-KLAS 8 News Now-The Hill survey was conducted between October 26 and 29, with 2,000 highly likely voters surveyed. The margin of error was plus or minus 2.1 percentage points.
