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Ron DeSantis, Rick Scott Make Up Ground in CNN Poll

November 1, 2018 - 2:15pm
Ron DeSantis and Rick Scott
Ron DeSantis and Rick Scott

A new poll shows Florida is going down to the wire as the Sunshine State gets ready to choose a new governor and take sides in an important U.S. Senate contest as the Republicans have made up ground. 

A CNN/SSRS poll of likely voters released on Thursday shows U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson, D-Fla., with a narrow lead over Republican challenger Gov. Rick Scott with the Democrat ahead 49 percent to 47 percent. With only a handful of days left in the election, 91 percent of Nelson voters and the same percentage of Scott supporters say their minds are made up on who they are voting for. A CNN/SSRS poll taken from Oct. 16 through Oct. 20 had Nelson out front 49 percent to 45 percent. 

Nelson is seen as favorable by 47 percent while 38 percent see him as unfavorable. Scott is seen as favorable by 48 percent while 45 percent view him unfavorably. 

The new poll shows a close contest in the gubernatorial race with Tallahassee Mayor Andrew Gillum, the Democratic nominee, ahead of former U.S. Rep. Ron DeSantis, R-Fla., 49 percent to 48 percent. This is a major change from the CNN/SSRS poll taken from Oct. 16 through Oct. 20 which had Gillum up 54 percent to 42 percent, a margin which was an outlier compared to other polls. 

The overwhelming majority of voters--92 percent of Gillum supporters and 91 percent of DeSantis backers--say their minds are made up in the gubernatorial contest. 

Gillum is seen as favorable by 48 percent while 38 percent see him as unfavorable. DeSantis is seen as favorable by 46 percent while 39 percent see him as unfavorable. 

Asked what the most important issues are, 26 percent of likely voters in Florida say healthcare followed by the economy at 24 percent, immigration at 18 percent, national security at 12 percent and gun policy at 10 percent. 

President Donald Trump has the approval of 47 percent while 49 percent disapprove of him. 

The poll of 781 likely voters in Florida was taken from Oct 24 through Oct 29 and had a margin of error of  +/-4.3 percent. 

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Gillum is as crooked as it gets. In the same way that H. Clinton. Pro Open Borders, Pro high taxes and lying his way to the polls.No thanks. Enough of the democrat insanity. Voting straight republican. Ron DeSantis you have my support.

My husband and I have both voted for Rick Scott and Ron DeStanis. Florida has a booming economy and is a meca for attracting new businesses. It is total hypocrisy for the Democrats to declare health care as their chief focus considering the fact they wrecked it in the first place. Obama lies over and over about keeping your doctor and health plan!!!!

No more Red Tide Rick and Trump puppet, political novice DeSantis... Vote Blue for some checks and balances on the radical right fascists for a change...

Never!!!!!

Are you insane? Rhetorical question, we all know you liberals are... you are the most radical and fascist of then all.. deflect much? Suck it up buttercup.. there is nothing good about the liberals or gillum..

Florida is pro-Law Enforcement and Gilliam has made statements about doing away with Cops and Prisons. Most sane Floridians don't want violent offenders back in their communities. Gilliam is a Marxist extremist, with serious ethics problems. he will do more harm to the mainstream Democratic Party than good.

And you wonder why Gillum is winning! ………………..Your BS is just that and everyone knows it now as decent repubs flee the party in droves not wanting to be associated to the likes of YOU, Scott, DeSantis. Now Jolly, a decent repubs has come out for Gillum...………...You ran him, Crist, Fasano, other decent people out and now you just have deplorable and evangelicals that are going to find God as a place it hell for them...……..$70mm in Scott's own money and he is still losing so how low the repub party has fallen...…………..If anyone wants to save the repub party, don't vote for any to send the message this far right racism, Nazi's, KKK are good people has to stop or it needs to die...……...And I say that as a fiscal conservative I left because repubs are not. Apparently they just talk about it when Dems are in control then spend like drunken sailors amassing massive deficits, national debts. …………...Vs Dems pay down the deficit and even balanced the budget...……...Now next yr the Trump, repub deficit will be $1T!!!...………..Way to go!!

Mayor Andrew Gillum is a democrat that supports equal pay for women. He supports strong law enforcement. His city Tallahassee's crime rate has dropped 24% under his tenure. He supports protecting coverage for pre-existing conditions, better healthcare, better schools & protecting our environment. Vote for Senator Nelson & Andrew Gillum for a better future for our great state.

No democrat wants law enforcement. They are anti-cops- anti-border control and anti-America. I am voting a straight republican ticket.

Really? Really? Facts are revealing whereas lies reflect a persons soul. What you sow you will reap. Time knows no end, unlike people! Those who run out of time, will be judged!

What are you smoking? Wow!! What a crock! You are swimming in the sea of denial and lies! Everything you said is the exact opposite! Brain washer much? God help us!! LORD please protect our state from this evil! In the name of Jesus!

Florida has been under republican reign for 20 years. 44% of the jobs here are very low wage with no benefits. Our governor Scott cut 1.3 billion in funding for our schools which now rank a lowly 42th nationally. Our teachers pay ranks 45th. Over 800,000 Floridians were rejected healthcare & our waterways have been turned into a toxic cesspool, killing 12 TONS of marine life. This includes dolphins, sea turtles, manatees, crabs & a variety of fish. We are in desperate need of change. That is why I voted for Mayor Andrew Gillum & Senator Bill Nelson. They both believe in the science of climate change & are focused on good paying jobs in clean energy & protecting Florida's delicate ecosystem. Mayor Gillum will put more funding back in our schools & pay our teachers what they re worth. Vote Blue Florida.

You want change and voted for nelson?? He has been around for over 40 years. That doesn't sound like change to me

Fuck you and those socialist pricks #redwave!

I agree, fuck him or her

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Polls fluctuate, but the desperation of the two trailing candidates has been steady now for two weeks. Ay carumba!

All Nelson has been saying is the Republicans will take our S.S. when it has been the Democrats, starting with LJB. He and the Democrats opened the S.S. Trust fund to pay for warfare. Kennedy and Schriver? used S.S. to fund the Peace Corp.

Here in Florida we have a governor Rick Scott who was charged with the largest Medicare Fraud in US history. He was able to hire the best attorneys to keep him out of prison. He pled the fifth, was forced to step down as CEO & his company was fined $1.7 billion. He is the most corrupt governor in Florida's history. Many Floridians can't stand him & do NOT want him to represent us in congress.

Nelson hasn't said much of anything. It's Republican leaders who've said they need to look at entitlements to cover the massive new debt they just created. Now Trump offers a MIDDLE CLASS TAX CUT just before the election....does that mean the tax cut for the wealthy and giant corporations didn't really help the middle class? Bingo!

O Joe U Shmo

I don't know about CNN, but the night of Broward Debate, I was watching with the Ballot in hand, Now mind you being retired military, voting conservative and independent on issues my whole life. I felt like I was looking at Desantis as kid in school whose dog ate his homework, then came the " How the Hell am i supposed to know? remark on a $144,000 dollars to a trip to Fox and Friends( which I watched ) compared to a Hamilton ticket, At that point race, party, meant nothing, Still careful i went back on the internet and looked up every Desantis Ad, to give him the benefit of the doubt, I've seen guys like him the Military my whole life, its just not meant to be, they are honorable guys, his type: however they blink and blink a lot.

Just Whose "military" were YOU in...."Jimmy ALLman", and how did you survive long enough to retire? (I remember "weasels" like you "kissing up" at every opportunity, and offering non-solutions and far-out explanations, for everyones' entertainment.)

That's the only poll that has it this close. Don't believe the hype. Both are down by 5 points or more. Blue wave coming!!!

A poll with a 4.3% margin of error is not worth talking about...……………..Fact is both Nelson and Gillum is ahead and the undervote this time will be for the dems as women, independents, decent people just don't like what the repub party has become, the part of racists openly., fiscally and morally bankrupt..………...Now the racist southern strategy comes back to bite repub in the azz.

You only have to Win by one vote Nelson and Gillum will both win

Wait and see before you choose Seppuku.

I thought CNN was fake news. Don't believe it.

You are fake for thinking they are fake. Get in some real business.

What IDIOTS would ever trust CNN polls, period?!?!

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