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FLORENCE, South Carolina — South Carolina state Rep. Russell Fry has a double-digit lead on Rep. Tom Rice (R-SC) in a single ballot because the embattled incumbent campaigns to maintain his Grand Strand to Pee Dee congressional district after voting to question President Donald Trump.

Greater than two-fifths (42%) of seemingly Republican major voters would assist Trump-endorsed Fry, a former South Carolina Basic Meeting majority chief whip, if the June 14 election had been held right this moment, in response to a Trafalgar Group poll check of the state’s seventh District revealed Wednesday.

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1 / 4 backed Rice, a fifth-term lawmaker and former tax lawyer who voted to question Trump over the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, the ballot discovered. Different candidates, Barbara Arthur and Ken Richardson, notched roughly 10% apiece. One other 7% had been undecided.

The Trafalgar Group ballot, based mostly on 572 responses gathered from Could 26-29, is much like two current inner Fry surveys. Analysis carried out by Fry final month discovered that 39% of respondents had been for him, compared to 23% who remained loyal to Rice. Richardson earned lower than 10% once more, although many extra (18%) had been undecided. All of the research had a margin of error of 4 share factors.

Rice downplayed the Trafalgar Group ballot in Florence, South Carolina, on Wednesday, telling reporters with him on the path he’s “comfy” with its findings. “There’s just one ballot that issues and that is, that is in two weeks,” he stated.

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Rice’s technique for the anticipated runoff between himself and Fry appears to be a easy one. “To achieve out and remind folks about what we have gotten executed, what we have achieved, and to ask folks present up on the polls,” he stated.