In contrast to some recent independent polling, which showed a close three-way Democratic race for governor with Moore, Comptroller Peter Franchot and former U.S. Labor Secretary Tom Perez as the leading contenders, the Moore campaign on Tuesday was trying to characterize the primary as a two-way race between Franchot and Moore.
The Moore campaign released a poll Tuesday of 601 likely Democratic primary voters taken June 25-27, showing Franchot at 21%, Moore at 20% and Perez at 16%.The survey, conducted by Garin-Hart-Yang Research Group, the pollster for the last three Democratic gubernatorial nominees, had a 4.1-point margin of error.
Rounding out the field in the Moore poll: King at 5%, former state Attorney General Doug Gansler at 4%, and former Clinton administration official Jon Baron at 1%. Fully one-third of voters remained undecided.
Polls financed by campaigns are often viewed as less reliable than independent surveys. One of the most eyebrow-raising things about this poll is that Garin-Hart-Yang did not test former Prince George’s County Executive Rushern Baker — who suspended his campaign in June but will remain at the top of the ballot, and had finished in fourth place in other recent surveys. He could still have a decent showing, especially on his home turf.
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