Sen. Bill Nelson (D-Fla.) and Gov. Rick Scott (R-Fla.) are neck-and-neck with one week left in their closely-watched Florida Senate race, according to a new UNF poll.
Forty-seven percent of likely voters said they would vote for Nelson if the race were held today while 46 percent said they would vote for Scott. Seven percent reported they are undecided.
Eighty-one percent of likely Democratic voters said they will vote for Nelson in the upcoming election, compared to the 86 percent of likely Republican voters who say they will throw their support behind Scott, according to the poll.
The Cook Political Report rates the race as a “toss up” and an average of polls compiled by RealClearPolitics has Nelson up 2 points.
Most recent polls have found the two tied.
Nelson is considered one of the most vulnerable Democrats this election cycle as he tries to hold his seat in a state that Trump won in 2016.
President Trump has offered a full-throated endorsement of Scott while the governor has refrained from making the president a central part of his campaign, wary of alienating Latino voters who may be turned off by Trump’s anti-immigration rhetoric.
The UNF poll was conducted from Oct. 23 to 26 and surveyed 1,051 likely voters with a margin of error of plus or minus three percent.