Hassan, Bolduc neck and neck in New Hampshire: poll

Sen. Maggie Hassan (D-N.H.) and Republican Don Bolduc are neck and neck within the race for the Senate seat that might decide which get together controls the physique, in accordance with a brand new ballot. 

The ballot from Saint Anselm School’s New Hampshire Institute of Politics discovered Bolduc main Hassan by 1 level, 48 p.c to 47 p.c. That end result exhibits a big tightening of the race in comparison with the institute’s September ballot, which discovered Hassan was main by 6 factors. 

Hassan’s favorability ranking has since dropped, whereas Bolduc’s has improved notably since then. 

Hassan was considered favorably by 45 p.c of respondents within the new ballot, down from 48 p.c in September. Her unfavorable ranking additionally rose from 51 p.c to 54 p.c. 

Bolduc was considered favorably by 46 p.c within the new ballot, up 5 factors from the September ballot. 

A lot of Hassan’s lead in September was based mostly on Republicans not totally coalescing round Bolduc, who has confronted controversy all through the marketing campaign for falsely arguing that the 2020 presidential election was stolen from former President Trump. 

Bolduc backed off his claims after profitable the Republican nomination within the spring, however he has extra lately clamped down on preventing voter fraud and making false claims that widespread fraud occurred in 2020. 

Hassan has had overwhelming Democratic assist behind her, however Republicans at the moment are standing extra solidly behind Bolduc. 

The GOP pulled thousands and thousands of {dollars} out of the race earlier on as Bolduc gave the impression to be trailing Hassan by giant margins, however the Senate Republicans’ marketing campaign arm lately elevated spending on the race as polls confirmed it tightening. 

The New Hampshire Senate race is considered one of a number of that has seen Democratic candidates’ leads over their Republican opponents slim in latest weeks. 

However Hassan continues to be holding a lead in most polls, and FiveThirtyEight’s polling common has her forward by about 4 factors. 

The brand new ballot was performed from Oct. 28 to 29 amongst 1,541 doubtless voters. The margin of error was 2.5 factors.