DETROIT — With about a month until Election Day, a new poll shows Republican John James leading Democrat Carl Marlinga by nearly 8 percentage points in the race for Congress in Michigan's new 10th District covering parts of Macomb and Oakland counties.
The poll of 400 likely general election voters found that 44% would vote for James, 36% would vote for Marlinga, 5.4% would support a third-party candidate and 14.5% were undecided or refused to answer.
The poll commissioned by The Detroit News and WDIV-TV (Channel 4) also found James did better when compared with Republican gubernatorial candidate Tudor Dixon, who trailed Democratic Gov. Gretchen Whitmer by 13 percentage points in the Republican-leaning 10th District.
