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But his name keeps coming up.

In both a SurveyUSA poll released in August and the more recent Siena University poll, 5% of respondents said they'd vote for him on Election Day.

Schmidt says it shows he's gaining momentum and that people feel disenfranchised from the political system.

A lot of people are tired of settling for the lesser of two evils.

And that is kind of what is happening right now, is that pretty much most of these races are showing a pretty substantial Democratic lead, which is funny when you look at how KSTP and Star Tribune kind of frame their stories.

Now, the Star-- and KSTP do- put out there, it's like, "State auditor gap narrows as Secretary of State margin widens." Now, what I found to be interesting about this when I f- I saw this was the last time I saw polling from SurveyUSA on KSTP, they bizarrely had the Republicans in the lead.

And so I'm like, "Oh my God, what do you mean that the Secretary of State race is mar- is, is getting larger?" Well, then you go to the numbers, and the numbers kind of tell a different story.

Start with the auditor position, where it's, uh, Zach Filipovich versus the witch doctor, Scott Jensen.

Is, is, is Glortho the c- the, the crystal god a CPA? I- maybe he is.

I- does he have one of those little green caps, little visors? [laughs] Glortho ain't going away.

So they had, uh, that race, they, they-- the last time I thought the SurveyUSA had, had Jensen in the lead with Glortho.

But now Filipovich is leading 41 to 40.

The majority of North Carolina adults say their lives and finances are worse since the 2024 election.

That's according to an exclusive WREL WSOC poll conducted by SurveyUSA.

WREL state government reporter Will Doran is here to help us break down what this poll tells us heading into the midterm elections.

That's right.

There's a lot of polling that we've done that's going to be coming out this week, so you don't want to miss that, especially with early voting starting on Thursday.

So, Will, who exactly was polled? What's the methodology here, just so that people know?

Yeah, so our pollsters with SurveyUSA, who we've used in the past for polls, which by the way have been pretty accurate, talked to 900 North Carolinians for about the past week.

And we're getting the numbers in now.

We had s- Emerson College the c- oh, the day before the election, 48 to 42, Gideon plus 6.

SurveyUSA on October 29th, Gideon plus 1.

There was no poll in the last months of the, p- public poll in the last two months of the campaign that showed anything but Sarah Gideon winning, and, and the, the crusher of dreams, Susan Collins, comes out-

It wasn't even close.

So, uh, not even as tight.

I- I mean, this is where I, I sometimes feel like I'm taking crazy pills because you look at Ohio, and it's like seven or eight points for Brown, and then here in Minnesota, uh, there was a, a high-quality poll yesterday that came out, a SurveyUSA, that, uh, only had Peggy Flanagan up by two points on Michelle Tafoya.

So it sta-statistically is in kind of a dead heat because of the margin of error.

So the idea that, you know, Ohio would be further to the left of Minnesota in a US Senate race in twenty twenty-six is, is hard to wrap your mind around.