Andrew Gillum is on track to become Florida's next governor.
A Quinnipiac University poll released Wednesday shows that the Tallahassee mayor, who unexpectedly won the state's Democratic gubernatorial primary last month, is 9 points ahead of Republican challenger Rep. Ron DeSantis. Support for the candidates is pretty staunchly divided along party lines, but independents are strongly in Gillum's favor, 56 percent to DeSantis' 40 percent.
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Wednesday's Quinnipiac poll shows that 54 percent of likely voters would opt for Gillum, while 45 percent prefer DeSantis. Gillum is also looking more positive to voters overall, drawing in a 55 percent favorability rating to DeSantis' 42 percent. Of those likely voters, 94 percent say they're decided on their vote.
Those results aren't as good as DeSantis' camp should expect, seeing as he's far outspent Gillum on TV ads, a Quinnipiac poll director says. Gillum's pay-less approach proved similarly successful during the Democratic primary.
Quinnipiac surveyed 888 likely voters by landlines or cellphone from Sept. 20-24 with a 4-point margin of error. See more results here.
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