Rep. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn., has pulled ahead of former Democratic Gov. Phil Bredesen in the race for Senate in Tennessee — dampening blue-wave hopes for a Senate seat pickup, a new poll round.
According to the NBC News/Marist survey released Tuesday, Blackburn leads Bredesen by 5 percentage points among likely voters, 51 percent to 46 percent. Three percent are undecided.
In a September NBC/Marist poll, Bredesen led by 2 percentage points.
The poll has a margin of error of plus or minus 5.7 percentage points.
Bredesen, a centrist, has mounted a strong bid to flip the red seat, which Sen. Bob Corker, R-Tenn. — a friend of Bredesen — currently holds, CNBC reported.
Blackburn has run an unabashedly pro-President Donald Trump campaign in a state the president won by about 25 percentage points in 2016. She has cast Bredesen as too liberal for Tennessee.
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