TEXAS -- It’s the first poll that puts Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Beto O’Rourke ahead of Republican incumbent Ted Cruz.

According to an online poll released Wednesday by Reuters and Ipsos in conjunction with the University of Virginia Center for Politics, O’Rourke leads Cruz by two percentage points among likely voters. That’s within the survey’s margin of error of plus or minus 3.5 points.

Forty-seven percent of respondents favored O’Rourke while 45 percent supported Cruz. Three percent of respondents said they would vote for “other,” and 5 percent said they would vote for “none.”

On Tuesday, a Quinnipiac poll of likely voters showed Cruz with a 9-point lead over O’Rourke. That poll surveyed likely voters by phone.

The Ipsos poll also showed Gov. Greg Abbott ahead of his Democratic challenger Lupe Valdez by nine percentage points – 50 percent to 41 percent.