FL-SEN: Rick Scott leads Debbie Mucarsel-Powell by 7 points, winning with Hispanic voters

Republican Rick Scott is on track to keep his U.S. Senate seat Nov. 5, according to newly released polling that shows him leading by 7 percentage points statewide.

Pollsters found Scott is also ahead with Hispanic voters even though his Democratic challenger, former U.S. Rep. Debbie Mucarsel-Powell, is of Latin American heritage and he is not.

Jacksonville-based Mason-Dixon Polling & Strategy interviewed 625 likely voters by phone Oct. 1-4 on behalf of NBC 6 and Telemundo 51 in Miramar. The firm randomly selected whom it called from a phone-matched Florida voter registry and assigned quotas to voter turnout by county.

Statewide, Scott leads Mucarsel-Powell 48%-41%, with 11% of voters undecided or planning to cast ballots for another candidate. Only in Southeast Florida are voters siding more with the Democrat (53%-36%). Her next best region, pollingwise, is the Tampa Bay area, where 42% of voters prefer her compared to 46% who like Scott better.

Scott leads by 20 points with White voters, while Mucarsel-Powell is ahead by 70 points with Black voters. Among Hispanic voters in Florida, who generally lean conservative, Scott holds a 6-point lead (47%-41%) after blanketing Spanish-language broadcasts with ads in which he denounces “radical socialist” educators and “the evils of communism.”



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