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CHARLESTON, South Carolina — Incumbent Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC) maintains a slim lead on her Trump-endorsed Republican major challenger, former South Carolina state Rep. Katie Arrington, in a brand new ballot.

Mace, criticized by President Donald Trump for certifying the 2020 election, earns 46% of the vote within the Palmetto State’s Charleston-anchored 1st Congressional District, in keeping with the Trafalgar Group ballot revealed Wednesday. Compared, Arrington amasses 41%. One other 13% stay undecided two weeks earlier than their June 14 major.

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The ballot, carried out amongst 556 possible Republican major voters from Might 26-29, has a margin of error of 4 proportion factors. However the survey displays the fluidity of the Trump-defined race.

Arrington beforehand primaried a sitting congressman, then-Rep. Mark Sanford, a former governor, in 2018. But she misplaced the final election to Democrat Joe Cunningham, partly due to her off-shore drilling coverage positions. Republicans relinquished the district to Democrats for the primary time in 40 years. Mace went on to unseat Cunningham in 2020.

Arrington has attacked Mace’s extra centrist Republican tendencies, contending at their solely debate final month that Mace has “learn the room fallacious.”

“That isn’t what we despatched her as much as Washington to do,” Arrington mentioned. “We despatched Rep. Mace as a result of she was Trump-endorsed and mentioned she was America first. And the second that she acquired up there, she turned her again on us after which she turned her again on President Trump.”

Mace has centered on whether or not Arrington is electable, arguing the district desires a lawmaker who acknowledges it “marches to the beat of its personal drum.”

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“I am the one candidate up right here who is aware of how one can beat a Democrat at the present time on this district,” she mentioned. “I promised that I’d work exhausting, I promised to be an impartial voice, and I promised to not tow the occasion line once they taxed an excessive amount of and spent an excessive amount of on this nation.”