Former Alabama state Supreme Court Chief Justice Roy Moore holds a narrow lead over incumbent Sen. Luther Strange (R-Ala.), as the two jockey in the final weeks before Alabama’s special GOP Senate primary runoff, according to a new poll.
The poll from Harper Polling puts Moore at 47 percent to Strange’s 45 percent, with 8 percent of voters undecided. The poll also found that more voters consider Strange, who was endorsed by President Trump, as the candidate most supportive of the president by a margin of 10 points.
The data are similar to recent polling figures released by the Senate Leadership Fund, the Senate leadership’s allied super PAC, which found Moore up by just 4 points. But those two surveys are a far cry from others released last week that showed Moore up by a double-digit margin, a discrepancy that underscores how difficult it is to measure a race that’s expected to have low turnout.
{mosads}Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) and Trump have backed Strange in the hopes of rallying Republicans around the incumbent, who received a temporary appointment to the seat back in February when Trump tapped Jeff Sessions as his attorney general.
Despite being outspent by a heavy margin, Moore appears to still be holding his lead thanks to his base.