Poll: Democrats have 3 points ahead of the 2020 generic vote

Democrats lead Republicans by 3 points on a congressional game, according to a new poll of registered voters.

The Politico-Morning Consult poll released Wednesday revealed that 42% of respondents said they would vote for a Democratic congressional candidate, while 39% said they would vote for a Republican party.

At the same time, only 39% of respondents said they would probably vote or certainly for. President TrumpDonald John TrumpHouse Dems asks Barr to cancel his "inappropriate" press conference on the Mueller report The DOJ plans to release a "slightly redacted" version of the Mueller report on Thursday: WaPo Nadler accuses Barr of "unprecedented measures" for "edit" the Mueller PLUS report, while 53% said they would probably or definitely vote for someone else.

The researchers interviewed 1,998 registered voters between April 12 and 14. The survey has a margin of error of plus or minus 2 percentage points.

According to The Cook's political report, 17 Democratic seats and four Republican seats are expected to be extremely competitive in 2020. There are also 33 Republican-held House seats and 36 Democrat-held House seats, categorized as somewhat competitive.