ICYMI: NBC – Club for Growth Action AZSEN Poll Shows “Dead Heat” Following $5.5 Million Investment

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Washington, D.C. – In case you missed it, NBC’s Marc Caputo published an exclusive report on a new poll showing the race “neck-and-neck.” Club for Growth Action is making a large investment in the race and spending $5.5 million in the final two weeks. Club for Growth Action has now spent almost $3.5 million on the primary and nearly $6 million on the general election. According to the NBC report, “Part of the reason Republicans are returning to Masters could be the $5.5 million in TV ads in the last two weeks that were financed by Club for Growth Action.”

“Considering Arizona has some of the worst inflation in the country and Mark Kelly’s record of voting with Biden 95% of the time, it’s no surprise that Blake Masters’ campaign is surging in the polls,” said Club for Growth Action President David McIntosh. “Club for Growth Action is making a large investment in the race because we believe Masters can and will beat Kelly because Arizona voters know Kelly is just a rubber stamp for the liberals in Washington and their policies that are driving inflation and crime.”

Key Takeaways:

·  Mark Kelly 47%

·  Blake Masters 46%

·  Mark Victor 3%

·  The poll was conducted by Fabrizio, Lee and Associates from Oct. 24-26 and included 800 likely Arizona voters. 30% by live-caller landline, 35% by live-caller interviews on cell phones and 35% via SMS text messaging. The poll’s error margin is about +/- 3.5%.

 

Story Excerpts:

Arizona Senate and governor races tighten ahead of Obama visit, GOP poll says

New GOP poll shows Democrat Mark Kelly and Republican Blake Masters neck-and-neck with just over a week to go.

NBC, Marc Caputo

A new survey from one of the nation’s top GOP pollsters shows Arizona’s Senate race is a dead heat, while the Republican candidate for governor inches slightly ahead of her Democratic rival.

Just over a week before Election Day, the polls shows Democratic Sen. Mark Kelly with the support of 47% of likely voters while Republican challenger Blake Masters is backed by 46%, the poll of 800 Arizona likely voters, shared exclusively with NBC News, said.

Fabrizio conducted for the conservative Club for Growth Action, which has endorsed Masters

Part of the reason Republicans are returning to Masters could be the $5.5 million in TV ads in the last two weeks that were financed by Club for Growth Action, a conservative group that also paid for the Fabrizio, Lee and Associates survey, conducted from Oct. 24-26.

In the three-way race Senate race polled by Fabrizio, Masters led Kelly by 85 percent to 10 percent among Republican voters but Kelly led Masters by a wider amount among Democratic voters, 93 percent to 5 percent. Victor pulled 1 percent from each partisan group.

Among independents — the ultimate swing voters in one of the nation’s ultimate swing states — Kelly has 43 percent support and Masters is at 41 percent, while Victor is getting 9 percent of the theoretical vote.

Among white voters, the supermajority of the electorate, Kelly Masters were tied at 47 percent each, with Victor at 3 percent. Hispanic voters, who are about 18 percent of the electorate, favored Kelly at 48 percent compared to Masters at 43 and Victor 4 percent.

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