Oregon Republican primary has no clear frontrunner, no candidate with more than 11% support: Poll

Oregon’s big discipline of Republican candidates for governor has cut up voters sufficient that the main candidate had solely 11% help in a ballot launched on Thursday.

Bud Pierce, a most cancers physician from Salem who was the Republican gubernatorial nominee in 2016, was the best choice for respondents within the survey performed by Nelson Analysis, adopted by former Home Republican Chief Christine Drazan of Oregon Metropolis with 8%.

Pierce’s lead over Drazan is throughout the margin of error for the ballot, which was 4.3%.

Three candidates tied for third with 5%: former state lawmaker and company guide Bob Tiernan, Sandy Mayor and insurance coverage government Stan Pulliam and anti-tax activist Invoice Sizemore.

Nineteen Republicans filed to run for governor this 12 months, which might result in voters choosing their nominee by a slim margin, The Oregonian/OregonLive has reported.

Practically half of the respondents, 47.5%, had been undecided about which Republican they could vote for when ballots begin to present up in mailboxes in roughly two weeks for the Could 17 vote-by-mail major. The survey of 520 seemingly Republican major voters was performed April 11 by April 13 by phone and on-line.

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Drazan’s marketing campaign identified she solely entered the race in November, whereas Pierce introduced he deliberate to run greater than a 12 months in the past. “Republicans more and more see Drazan because the candidate who offers them their finest likelihood to win the nook workplace in 4 many years,” the marketing campaign stated in a memo, declaring {that a} mid-December ballot paid for by Pierce confirmed Drazan with 4% help. On the time, Pulliam was in second place with 8%.

The brand new ballot was paid for by Public Affairs Counsel, a lobbying agency whose principal J.L. Wilson owns Nelson Analysis.

Drazan has raised almost $1.8 million since January 2021, a few of which she used to assist fellow legislative Republicans, and nonetheless has $850,000 in her marketing campaign account after spending greater than $860,000 up to now this 12 months, based on state marketing campaign finance data.

Pierce has raised $1.6 million since January 2021, with giant private contributions to his personal marketing campaign together with $500,000 that Pierce donated to himself on Sunday. After spending greater than $440,000 this 12 months together with outlays this week on TV and radio adverts, he has $473,000 readily available, based on state data.

— Hillary Borrud