Washington — Democratic U.S. Senate hopeful Haley Stevens narrowly leads Abdul El-Sayed in a new statewide poll of likely Michigan voters that shows the pair in a statistical toss-up, while state Sen. Mallory McMorrow trails in third place and a whopping 36% of voters are undecided.
Stevens, a four-term congresswoman from Birmingham, garnered 25% of support from survey respondents, while physician El-Sayed of Ann Arbor came in at 23% and McMorrow of Royal Oak finished 6 percentage points back at 16% among 500 likely voters in the August Democratic primary election.
The Lansing-based polling firm Glengariff Group conducted the survey April 17-19 for the Detroit Regional Chamber. The poll had a margin of error of plus or minus 4.4 percentage points.
Michigan’s Democratic U.S. Senate primary is one of the most competitive contests in the country this year after Sen. Gary Peters opted not to seek reelection. The winner of the Aug. 4 primary will likely face former U.S. Rep. Mike Rogers of White Lake Township in the November general election.
Among self-described “definite” primary voters, Stevens maintained a 2-point lead and McMorrow moved up 2 percentage points, so that the three candidates all finished within 7.4 points of one another, according to the poll results.
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Reporting by Melissa Nann Burke, The Detroit News / The Detroit News
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