WASHINGTON_U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein leads fellow Democrat and state Sen. Kevin de Leon by 46 percent to 24 percent among likely voters in the race for the seat she's held since 1992, according to a new poll by the Public Policy Institute of California.
Just 9 percent of likely voters reported being undecided, leaving De Leon with little room to close the gap in the roughly 100 days left until the election.
The poll found that 47 percent of Republicans and 24 percent of independents say they don't plan to vote in the Senate race at all.
Feinstein leads De Leon with support from 66 percent of Democrats and 38 percent of independents and leads in all demographic categories, including ethnicity, gender, geography and education.
Feinstein received 44 percent of the vote in the June primary and has a dominant lead in fundraising as she seeks a fifth full term in the U.S. Senate.
The survey of 1,711 California adult residents took place between July 8 and July 17. The margin of sampling error was plus or minus 3.4 percentage points.
