Poll: White House, Senate races are toss-ups in North Carolina
Two weeks from Election Day, Donald Trump and Joe Biden are virtually tied in North Carolina, according to a new survey of the key swing state’s likely voters.
An ABC News/Washington Post poll released Tuesday reports that 49 percent of North Carolina likely voters back Biden, while 48 percent favor Trump.
The Democratic nominee’s narrow lead over the Republican incumbent sits within the survey’s margin of sampling error of plus or minus 4.5 percentage points.
According to a RealClearPolitics average of North Carolina surveys conducted from Oct. 7-14, Biden is 2.7 percentage points ahead of Trump in general election polling.
Former President Barack Obama won North Carolina in 2008 but lost there to Republican nominee Mitt Romney in 2012. Trump carried the state in 2016, defeating Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton by 3.8 percentage points.
The ABC-Post poll also shows that the North Carolina Senate race remains a toss-up, with 49 percent of likely voters preferring Democrat Cal Cunningham and 47 percent supporting Republican Sen. Thom Tillis.
Tillis is regarded as one of the most vulnerable GOP senators seeking reelection in November, and his race in North Carolina could decide whether Democrats retake control of the chamber in 2021. The RealClearPolitics average of recent North Carolina Senate polling has Cunningham leading Tillis by 4.3 percentage points.
The ABC-Post poll was conducted by Langer Research Associates from Oct. 12-17, surveying a random sample of 646 North Carolina likely voters.
