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RandySF

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Tue Aug 18, 2020, 12:00 AM Aug 2020

VA-05: nternal poll shows neck-and-neck race brewing in Virginia House contest

An internal poll shows a neck-and-neck race in Virginia’s 5th Congressional District between Democrat Cameron Webb and Republican Bob Good as Democrats look to flip the open GOP seat.

An internal poll conducted for the Webb campaign and obtained exclusively by The Hill shows Webb with 42 percent support among likely voters, narrowly trailing Good, who leads with 44 percent – a difference that falls within the survey’s margin of error. Another 13 percent of voters remain undecided.

Neither candidate is very well known in the district, raising the prospects of a fluid campaign in the final 81 days until election day. Forty-five percent of likely voters said they were familiar with Webb, while 49 percent said they were familiar with Good.

In a promising sign for Democrats, President Trump, who won the district by 13 points in 2016, has an underwater favorability rating there now, with 45 percent of likely voters viewing him favorably and 52 percent saying they have an unfavorable view of him. Still, Trump has a slim 2-point lead over former Vice President Joe Biden, the presumptive Democratic nominee, by a 45-47 margin.



https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/511974-internal-poll-shows-neck-and-neck-race-brewing-in-virginia-house-contest

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