A new poll in the United States has revealed that Democrats hold a nine-point lead nationwide among all likely voters on the generic ballot.
The NPR/PBS News Hours/Marist Poll released in Thursday showed that Democrats led Republicans by 52 to 43 percent among all likely voters taking part in upcoming congressional elections across the country.
Lee Miringoff, director of the Marist Institute for Public Opinion, told NPR that the result from the survey indicate that the Republicans could lose their current majority control of the House.
“Those are numbers Democrats need,” Miringoff said, according to NPR. “That’s likely to convert to a flip of the House.”
Democrats have held a single-digit lead on the generic ballot across most polls, with RealClearPolitics reporting an average 7.5 point gap between the registered voters of the two parties.
It is speculated that Republicans will remain in majority control of the upper chamber…