NRSC Chairman Steve Daines on Tuesday in a meeting told his buddies that a recent internal poll found Dem Arizona Congressman Ruben Gallego leading likely GOP nominee for the 2024 US Senate election Kari Lake by 41 to 37 percent, with the seat’s current occupant, useless “independent” Senator Kyrsten Sinema in third at 17 percent in a potential three way, NBC News reports.
Daines said that it was clear Sinema was in fact pulling more support from Lake than Gallego, further confirming a theory of the race that emerged his campaign’s initial polling last year. Sinema has not yet officially declared whether or not she’ll be running again, though she has at least half-assed attempted to pitch donors on what a path to a second term would look like for her.