Republican Mike Rogers leads Democrat Abdul El-Sayed in Michigan’s open U.S. Senate race, according to a new survey that puts the contest in toss-up territory.
\n\nRogers pulled 45.8 percent to El-Sayed’s 44.4 percent among 600 likely voters, with nine percent undecided, in the poll conducted for the Detroit News and WDIV-TV. The former congressman’s 1.4-point edge sits inside the survey’s margin of error of plus or minus four points.
\n\nThe result reverses a run of recent surveys that put the Democrat ahead. An EPIC-MRA poll released last week showed El-Sayed leading by four, 47 percent to 43 percent, and a Susquehanna survey earlier in the summer had him up seven.
\n\nRichard Czuba, the veteran Michigan pollster who conducted the new survey, called the race a “toss-up.”
\n\nEl-Sayed moves ahead among voters most committed to casting a ballot, leading 46.7 percent to 44.4 percent with that group. Czuba pointed to a 10-point enthusiasm gap between base Republicans and base Democrats who “definitely” plan to vote. That gap is the widest he has measured across four elections.
\n\nCzuba tied the numbers to President Donald Trump, whose job approval landed at 35 percent in the survey.
\n\n“We cannot talk about this Senate race…
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