Mississippi Senate Race: Democrat Mike Espy within 1% of GOP Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith

https://mississippitoday.org/2020/09/21/new-poll-democrat-mike-espy-within-1-of-gop-sen-cindy-hyde-smith/

Republican U.S. Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith has a slight 41% to 40% lead over Democratic challenger Mike Espy in a poll released Monday morning by the Tyson Group. The same pollster had Hyde-Smith up on Espy 54% to 28% in March.

The Tyson Group recently conducted polls in Gulf Coast states for the Consumer Energy Alliance on the issue of offshore drilling. FiveThirtyEight, which rates national pollsters, gives Tyson a B/C grade.

In addition to asking questions on offshore drilling, which was supported by a majority of respondents in Texas, Louisiana, Alabama, Florida and Mississippi, the poll also surveyed political issues. It is one of few public surveys in the 2020 election cycle that polled voters about the Hyde-Smith vs. Espy race.

The poll provides the best showing yet for Espy, the former congressman and secretary of agriculture in the Clinton administration. In August, his campaign released an internal poll showing him within 5 percentage points of Hyde-Smith. But at the same time, the Hyde-Smith campaign released its own internal poll that indicated the race was not as close.

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