With less than three months to go before the mid-terms, the race for Wisconsin governor is a statistical dead heat, according to the latest Marquette University Law School poll.

Democrat incumbent Gov. Tony Evers leads newly minted Republican challenger Tim Michels 45% to 43%, but the numbers are within the poll’s margin of error of +/-4.2 percentage points.

Evers’ performance numbers continue to sag.

HIs job approval ratings declined to 47%, with 45% of poll respondents disapproving. That’s down 3 percentage points from February, when 50% of voters surveyed approved of the Democrat’s performance.

And a majority of respondents (56%) believe Wisconsin is headed in the wrong direction, with just 35% saying the state is on the right track. Confidence in the state’s direction has plummeted since the beginning of the COVID outbreak in spring 2020.

Meanwhile, Lt. Gov. Mandela Barnes, a Democrat, leads incumbent Republican U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson 51% to 44% in MU Law School’s latest poll.