With just under one month until the midterm elections, Republicans and Democrats are in the final stretch of trying to gain control of congress, and according to a new Rasmussen poll that came out on Friday, Republicans are holding a massive lead over Democrats.
If the election were held today, 48 percent of U.S. voters said that they were voting Republican, compared to the 41 percent who said they would vote Democrat.
The GOP is up three points from last week, where they held a 47 percent hold over Democrats at 43 percent, according to Town Hall.
Additionally, the poll concluded that most voters vote for the party they affiliate themselves with, however, the poll found that the majority of voters (46 percent) not affiliated with a particular party would vote Republican, while only 30 percent would vote Democrat.
To put into perspective just how easily the Republicans should beat the Democrats in the 2022 Midterm Election, in October 2018, before voters handed Democrats their first House majority in eight years, Democrats and Republicans were tied at 45% each in the generic ballot question. The margin was still a statistical dead heat – Republicans 46%, Democrats 45% – in the final poll before Democrats won a slim House majority while Republicans gained Senate seats to maintain control of that chamber. Today, Republicans hold a 7-point lead over Democrats.