Former President Donald Trump and Sen. Marsha Blackburn are polling higher among likely voters in Tennessee than their Democratic opponents, according to a Beacon Center poll released Monday.
“We have the more experienced, more competent candidates,” Mark Harrison, chair of the Hamilton County GOP, said in a phone interview. “I believe there’s more supporters of the Republican candidates than there are Republicans, and that’s because we have the better candidates.”
Rachel Campbell, chair of the Hamilton County Democratic Party, said polling isn’t always accurate.
“I think we learned in 2016 that the polls can be misunderstood and aren’t always accurate,” Campbell said by phone, “just like in 2020 when Biden won and in 2022 when everyone thought there was going to be this big red wave and actually Democrats did way better than anyone could have expected.”
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