Pennsylvania’s U.S. Senate race is in a statistical dead heat as Republican Dr. Mehmet Oz is surging and Democrat Lt. Gov. John Fetterman continues to lose steam, according to a poll.
This current poll also focused on the governor’s race between Republican State Sen. Doug Mastriano and Democrat Attorney General Josh Shapiro. Shapiro holds a ten point lead over Mastriano at 51 percent and 41 percent, respectively. Another nine percent of voters intend to cast a ballot for another candidate or are undecided. Shapiro’s lead in this poll has grown since last month, when Emerson had him at 47 percent and Mastriano at 43 percent.
Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro speaks at Muhlenberg High School in Reading, Pennsylvanis in this Nov. 26, 2019, file photo. Pennsylvania Republican gubernatorial candidate Doug Mastriano speaks during a campaign rally at The Fuge on May 14, 2022, in Warminster, Pennsylvania. Respondents were also asked to rank the top issue in the race, which they overwhelmingly said was the economy . It was followed by “threats to democracy” , “abortion access” , and “crime”
The poll sampled 1,000 likely voters from September 23-26 and has a margin of error of plus or minus 3 percentage points.
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