In the ongoing battle of polls, a new survey out Monday from Remington Research shows Republican Gov. Jeff Colyer up by two percentage points in the GOP primary.
With polling from Aug. 3 through Aug. 5 – the most recent data available – the new survey shows Colyer up with 34 percent of the vote to 32 percent for Secretary of State Kris Kobach.
Former Republican Sen. Jim Barnett was at 14 percent in the latest Remington poll and Insurance Commissioner Ken Selzer was at 9 percent.
The poll was posted on the Real Politics website on Monday. It surveyed 2,769 likely Republican primary voters. It had a margin of error of 2 percent.
The poll was done after The Kansas City Star and ProPublica published a story highlighting how much money Kobach made from his work defending immigration laws that cost cities across the country millions of dollars to defend in court.
However, the poll was done before President Donald Trump endorsed Kobach on Monday so there was no way to know how much the president’s support might influence the election.
The latest Remington poll was different from another recent survey done by the Trafalgar Group, which was done a week earlier and had a smaller sample size.
The Trafalgar Group poll – made public Sunday – showed Kobach up seven. However, the Trafalgar poll had no undecideds, it was unknown who commissioned the survey and it sampled 1,200 fewer voters than the Remington poll.
