Poll: NC Representative Ted Budd was 5 points ahead of his Democratic opponent in the Senate race

Ted Budd (R-NC), the Republican nominee for the U.S. Senate in North Carolina, is about five percent ahead of his opponent, Democratic nominee Cherie Beasley, in the general election, according to a Cygnal poll released by the Representative John Locke Foundation. . Thursday.

The poll asked voters:If there was a general election for the US Senate today and you had to choose, who would you vote for?”

While 45 percent of those polled voted for Budd, who won the support of President Donald Trump in the primary election, Beasley, North Carolina’s former Attorney General, received 40.3 percent of the responses. Green Party candidate Matthew Hoch and Libertarian candidate Shannon Bray received less than three percent of the vote, while eleven percent were undecided.

Budd did very well in his main career last month, winning nearly 60 percent of the vote and beating many of his opponents.

Survey respondents were also asked to assess whether “inflation is a big problem in the US.”

88.4 percent of respondents said it was a “big problem”, 8.7 percent said it was a “minor problem” and only 0.9 percent said it was “no problem at all”.

While 76.1% of respondents said it was “hard” to pay for fuel, 12.4% said paying for fuel was not “easy or difficult” and only 11.1% said it was easy to pay for fuel. . .

The survey also asked respondents what is President Joe Biden’s responsibility.For the historically high inflation rate in the United States? ”

Most respondents (41.1 percent) said Biden was fully responsible for inflation, and 36.6 percent believed he was responsible. Only 19.5% said they were innocent, 2.8% had difficulty answering.

Cygnal’s Civitas poll for the John Locke Foundation received 600 prospective general election voters from North Carolina between June 17 and 19 and had a margin of error of plus or minus 3.95 percent. Interviews were conducted via SMS and live phone calls, and 33.2 percent of respondents said they were registered as Republicans. In contrast, 33.4% said they were registered Democrats and 30% said they were independent.