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Thanks for the link! Democratic strategist Joe Trippi, who is advising the Jones campaign, disputed the poll’s accuracy in an email to supporters. He said the campaign’s own polling shows the race a virtual tie.

“Sen. Jones is not down 17 points. We have the race as a virtual dead heat. And we are going to win,” Trippi said. “There is no way in hell Doug Jones is down by even double digits, much less 17 points. No way – period. Every metric we have seen – from rising support for the senator among suburban women to increased support with independents – points to this once again being a very close race.”

The Morning Consult poll was conducted from July 24 to Aug. 2 and has a margin of error of plus-or-minus 4 percentage points.