Much like the presidential election, North Carolina’s U.S. Senate race remains extremely competitive. Republican Thom Tillis leads Democrat Cal Cunningham by a single point, 46% to 45%. The results show another 6% undecided (with the remainder indicating support for a candidate other than Tillis or Cunningham). The previous ECU poll showed the race tied at 44%.

This poll was conducted October 2-4, 2020. The sample consisted of 1,232 likely voters in North Carolina, with a Credibility Interval (CI), similar to a poll’s margin of error (MOE) of +/- 3.2 percentage points. The data were weighted by age, education, race, gender, region, mode, and 2016 election modeling. Data were collected using both an Interactive Voice Response (IVR) system of landlines only (n=783) and an online panel provided by Lucid (n=449).