{"id":455673,"date":"2026-10-03T23:32:07","date_gmt":"2026-10-03T23:32:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/455673\/"},"modified":"2026-10-03T23:32:07","modified_gmt":"2026-10-03T23:32:07","slug":"poll-democrats-lead-or-tie-senate-races-in-gop-leaning-states","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/455673\/","title":{"rendered":"POLL: Democrats lead or tie Senate races in GOP-leaning states"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON (TNND) \u2014 With one month until the midterms, New York Times\/Siena polls show <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/2026\/10\/03\/polls\/times-siena-poll-crosstabs.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Democrats leading or tied in five Senate races in Republican-leaning states<\/a>, potentially expanding their paths to regain Senate control.<\/p>\n<p>Democrats lead by 6 points in Texas, 7 points in Alaska and 3 points in Ohio. Republicans lead Iowa by 1 point, and Kansas is tied. The Ohio, Iowa and Kansas results are within their polls\u2019 margins of error.<\/p>\n<p>Democrats need a net gain of four Senate seats to take control while defending their current seats in key battlegrounds.<\/p>\n<p>Across the five states, 49% of voters said they want a candidate who would check President Donald Trump, compared with 27% who preferred a candidate who supports him. Trump\u2019s approval ranged from 38% to 41%, while disapproval ranged from 55% to 60%.<\/p>\n<p>The polls found cost of living and the economy were voters\u2019 <a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/campaign\/6127564-senate-polls-democrats-midterm-elections\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">top issues<\/a>. Democrats held a 24-point advantage among independents and were more trusted on cost of living; Republicans had a 3-point edge on immigration.<\/p>\n<p>The surveys were conducted Sept. 21-Oct. 1 among 2,946 likely voters, with state-level margins of error ranging from 4.5 to 5.1 points.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WASHINGTON (TNND) \u2014 With one month until the midterms, New York Times\/Siena polls show Democrats leading or tied&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":455674,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[132,134,133],"class_list":["post-455673","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-austin","tag-austin","tag-austin-headlines","tag-austin-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/455673","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=455673"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/455673\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/455674"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=455673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=455673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=455673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}