Sen. Amy Klobuchar, Royce White Credit: Sen. Amy Klobuchar, Royce White for Senate
U.S. Sen. Amy Klobuchar maintains a substantial lead over her GOP opponent, Royce White, in the latest MinnPost-Embold Research poll.
The poll found that Klobuchar, a Democrat first elected to the Senate in 2006, leads by 12 percentage points among likely voters (52%-40%). Those results are almost identical to what the MinnPost-Embold Research poll found in September.
Klobuchar became Minnesota’s first female senator in 2006. In 2018, in her third race, she defeated her Republican opponent, Jim Newberger, by a wider margin (24 percentage points) than what these poll results are showing.
Before she was elected to the Senate, Klobuchar served as Hennepin County attorney for eight years. She ran for president briefly in 2020, eventually dropping out and endorsing Joe Biden.
White is a former college basketball star and brief NBA player who has never held public office. In 2022, he ran for Congress, finishing second in a GOP primary in Minnesota’s 5th Congressional District.
The MinnPost-Embold Research poll showed White had the support of 84% of the respondents who identified as Republicans and 1% among Democrats. Klobuchar had the support of 96% of the respondents who identified as Democrats and 8% of those who identified as Republicans.
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