New polling numbers released by UtahPolicy.com Thursday show Salt Lake City Councilwoman Erin Mendenhall with a 13-point lead over her opponent, state Sen. Luz Escamilla, as Election Day draws nearer.
That’s a much wider lead than the councilwoman had in a Salt Lake Chamber poll conducted at the beginning of the month and which The Salt Lake Tribune reported on Thursday. In the earlier survey, Mendenhall’s apparent 5-point lead was roughly equal to the poll’s margin of error, plus-or-minus 5.23 percentage points.
“It’s certainly encouraging,” Mendenhall said of the new poll in a written statement Thursday, though she said the numbers are “not consistent with what we’re seeing at the doors.