A new poll in the Alabama Senate race shows anti-establishment candidate Roy Moore nearly 11 percentage points ahead of Sen. Luther Strange (R-AL) before Tuesday’s runoff election.
The poll, taken Friday and Saturday by data analytics firm Optimus, shows Roy Moore at 55.4 percent and Strange at 44.6 percent. The poll, which has a margin of error of 2.9 percent, was first reported by Axios.
It is the newest poll since President Trump made an appearance on Friday in Huntsville, Alabama, to campaign for Strange.
The poll shows that 80 percent of those surveyed and 86 percent of Republican primary voters know Trump has endorsed Strange but that Moore still maintains a lead over Strange.
Trump on Friday said he had promised Strange he would campaign for him since he had been loyal to him, but he acknowledged Strange could lose the runoff election to Moore.
Trump said if Strange loses, he would campaign for Moore, a former Alabama Supreme Court chief justice, in the general election in December against Democrat Doug Jones.
Since Alabama is solidly a red state, the winner of the GOP primary is expected to win the state.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) has thrown his support behind Strange, who was appointed to Jeff Sessions’ seat after Sessions was appointed Attorney General.
A RealClearPolitics average of all recent polls for the race shows Moore ahead by 8.6 percentage points.
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