POLITICO ***Double Header***: Debra Medina Closing On Kay Bailey Hutchison

Tea party-backed candidate Debra Medina is closing on Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison in Texas’s Republican gubernatorial primary, increasing the odds the race led by Gov. Rick Perry will be thrown into a runoff.

According to a survey out Tuesday by Public Policy Polling, Medina, a nurse who’s now a businesswoman, had the support of 24 percent of likely Republican primary voters, trailing the three-term senator by only 4 percentage points. Perry, who’s leading Hutchison by double-digits in several polls, got 39 percent in the latest survey.

If none of the candidate gets more than 50 percent of the vote in the March 2 primary, the top two finishers will compete in a runoff a week later.

The poll of 423 likely Republican voters found Medina particularly strong among those angry at Washington. Among the third of voters in the poll who said they disapproved of Washington, Medina topped Perry, 37 percent to 32 percent.

Both Perry and Hutchison had approval ratings of at least 50 percent in the poll, making Medina’s surge even more surprising.

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