The poll<\/a> from The New York Times, Philadelphia Inquirer and Siena University also shows Garrity, the state\u2019s treasury secretary, down by 20 percentage points in her race against Democratic incumbent Gov. Josh Shapiro, 58% to 38%.<\/p>\nThat\u2019s in line with other polling done on the race. RealClearPolitics, which tracks major public polls, showed Shapiro with an average lead of 23 points on Thursday afternoon.<\/p>\n
Garrity\u2019s campaign did not immediately respond Thursday to a request for comment.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt is really hard to put a positive spin for Garrity on that poll,\u201d said Kristin Kanthak, associate professor of political science at the University of Pittsburgh.<\/p>\n
Lew Irwin, a political science professor at Duquesne University, said Garrity\u2019s inability to raise more money for advertising and other campaign activities compounds her problems heading into the Nov. 3 election.<\/p>\n
Shapiro spent 20 times more money than Garrity ($31.8 million to $1.6 million) in the 13-week period that ended Sept. 4, according to campaign finance reports released Tuesday.<\/p>\n
The filings also showed that Shapiro\u2019s campaign brought in nearly $13.4 million during the latest reporting period compared to $1.6 million for Garrity\u2019s. Shapiro ended the period with $19.9 million in available cash, while Garrity had $1.4 million.<\/p>\n
With such an advantage, Irwin said, \u201cShapiro is just able to dominate the message.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThe strongest indicator, whether (Republicans) will admit it or not, is that donors just don\u2019t see this as a winnable race,\u201d Irwin said. \u201cDonors are pretty savvy in the investments they make, and they are not going to throw money at a race where they don\u2019t think they have a chance to win.\u201d<\/p>\n
Kanthak noted that Shapiro is \u201cone of the few governors out there who is above water \u2014 more people like him than don\u2019t. That\u2019s saying a lot in politics these days.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Times\/Inquirer\/Siena poll showed that 62% of likely voters in Pennsylvania have a favorable opinion of Shapiro, while 32% have an unfavorable one.<\/p>\n
In addition to the 33% of likely voters who said they had not heard of Garrity, another 11% said they didn\u2019t have an opinion of her or they refused to answer. About 29% said they had a favorable opinion of Garrity, while 27% didn\u2019t, the poll showed.<\/p>\n
Other findings from the poll:<\/p>\n
About 57% of likely voters said they think U.S. Sen. John Fetterman, a Democrat from Braddock, is more of a Republican than a Democrat, while 26% think he\u2019s more of a Democrat than a Republican. Once considered a rising progressive star, Fetterman has faced intense criticism from fellow Democrats and praise from many Republicans for breaking with his party and showing a willingness to work with President Donald Trump on certain issues.About 63% of likely voters disapprove of the job Trump is doing as president, while 34% approve.A majority of likely voters disapprove of the way Trump has handled issues including the cost of living (75%), gas prices (73%), the war in Iran (68%), the economy (65%), tariffs (59%) and immigration (58%).<\/p>\n
The poll surveyed 615 voters between Sept. 15 and Tuesday. It has a margin of error of about 4.4%.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"With the midterm election less than six weeks away, one-third of Pennsylvania\u2019s likely voters say they haven\u2019t heard…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":294358,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29],"class_list":["post-294357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania-headlines","tag-pennsylvania-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294357","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=294357"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294357\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/294358"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=294357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=294357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=294357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}