Today’s 2020 Election Polls: Democrats Even With GOP In Key Red State Races For President, Senate

Biden is tied with President Trump in Georgia (47%-47%) and Sen. David Perdue (R-Ga.) is narrowly ahead of Democratic candidate Jon Ossoff (47-45%), an Atlanta Journal-Constitution survey found. 

The same poll, however, showed Democrats stuck in a messy runoff for Georgia’s other Senate seat: Sen. Kelly Loeffler (R-Ga.) is in first with 24% of the vote, followed by Rep. Doug Collins (R-Ga.) and Democrat Raphael Warnock at 20%, Matt Lieberman, son of former Connecticut Sen. Joe Lieberman, at 11%, and Democrat Ed Tarver at 5%.

The results prompted a flurry of calls by Democrats for Lieberman and Tarver to drop out of the race, in a hope that Georgia Democrats will consolidate around Warnock.  

A Des Moines Register/Mediacom poll also found Trump and Biden locked in a dead heat (47%-47%) in Iowa, a state that went to the president by almost 10 points in 2016, but that Barack Obama won in 2012. 

A Morning Consult tracking survey conducted Sept. 11-20 shows Sen. Lindsey Graham up just one point over Democratic challenger Jaime Harrison in South Carolina, (46% to 45%, while in North Carolina, Democrat Cal Cunningham is leading Republican Sen. Thom Tillis by 9 points, 47% to 38%. 

Democrats have not been hopeful about Sen. Doug Jones keeping his seat in Alabama, and Morning Consult’s poll forecasts a blowout: GOP candidate Tommy Tuberville leads Jones by 18 points, according to Morning Consult’s survey (52%-34%).