Today, President Trump is campaigning in Missouri on behalf of Republican attorney general Josh Hawley, who is running against two-term Democratic senator Claire McCaskill. Earlier this week, polling from the Trafalgar Group showed Hawley leading McCaskill by three percentage points.

Thatโ€™s inside the pollโ€™s margin of error, but itโ€™s the first poll since early July that puts the race at something other than a tie. (Remington Research showed Hawley with a two-point lead in that survey from more than two months ago.)

Between July and today, four separate polls have shown the Missouri Senate race in a dead-heat, including a recent CBS News/YouGov poll that put both McCaskill and Hawley at 45 percent support among likely voters, with 6 percent undecided.

This weekโ€™s Trafalgar poll, though, shows Hawley leading the Democratic senator 47 to 44 percent, with 8 percent of likely voters undecided. Interestingly, his three-point advantage lessened considerably when respondents were asked how theyโ€™d vote if McCaskill were to support the confirmation of Trumpโ€™s Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh โ€” in that case, Hawleyโ€™s lead narrows to just half a percentage point. Voters indicated that, if McCaskill votes against Kavanaughโ€™s confirmation, theyโ€™d favor Hawley over their current senator 49 to 43 percent.

Those figures donโ€™t bode well for the Democrat, who stated on Wednesday evening that she will vote against Kavanaugh if and when the Senate holds its vote on his nomination, a process that has been delayed by Christine Blasey Fordโ€™s allegation that Kavanaugh sexually assaulted her 36 years ago. Kavanaugh has categorically denied it.

Just before announcing that she will not vote in favor of confirming Kavanaugh, McCaskill remarked at a campaign event in Missouri that she set would aside Fordโ€™s allegation when making her decision about whether or not to support the nominee. That announcement was an odd move for the Democrat, who could easily have tried to use Fordโ€™s allegation as cover for voting against Kavanaugh โ€” a vote that her left-wing base surely expects. Citing the allegation could have been a tactic to try and appease Missouriโ€™s Trump-favoring electorate, which seems to still want Kavanaugh confirmed.

As it is, McCaskill appears to be in a bit of trouble. With about six weeks to go until the election, Missouri is looking even more like one of the top few states where the GOP could pick up a seat in the Senate.