Elizabeth Warren

Senate Armed Services Committee member Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass. questions Defense Secretary-designate James Mattis on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, Jan. 12, 2017, during the committee's confirmation hearing for Mattis. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

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Asked whether Sen. Elizabeth Warren deserves re-election in 2018, 46 percent of Mass. registered voters said someone else should get a shot at the job, according to a new poll from WBUR/MassINC Polling Group.



Forty-four percent of poll respondents said she deserves re-election. Ten percent said they didn't know or were undecided.



Warren, D-Mass., has a favorable rating of 51 percent, while 37 percent have a generally unfavorable view of her.



President Obama and Gov. Charlie Baker received higher favorable ratings, 66 percent and 59 percent, respectively.



The same poll showed just 28 percent of respondents holding a favorable view of President Donald Trump, and 5 percent viewing Russian dictator Vladimir Putin in favorable light.



Just 12 percent of Republicans have a favorable view of Warren, the poll says.

% saying give someone else a chance:

32% of Dems

92% of Reps

46% of Inds https://t.co/7zPkYM6Dp9 — Steve Koczela (@skoczela) January 23, 2017

The WBUR survey polled 508 registered Massachusetts voters. The poll took place Jan. 15-17 and has a margin of error of plus or minus 4.4 percent.



Elected in 2012 after beating incumbent Sen. Scott Brown, Warren has stayed in the national spotlight. In 2016, she emerged as a top Trump critic, slamming in on Twitter and in speeches as a bully.

Former Red Sox pitcher Curt Schilling, a Trump supporter, has expressed interest in knocking Warren out of the Senate seat. But he has waffled on jumping in, telling Boston Herald Radio that "I honestly don't know" if he plans to campaign as a candidate against her, State House News Service reported earlier this month.

Rick Green, a businssman who founded the conservative Mass. Fiscal Alliance, is "quietly exploring his options for a Senate race," according to the Boston Globe.

In an email to supporters earlier this month, Warren said she is running for re-election in 2018, adding, "the people of Massachusetts didn't send me to Washington to roll over and play dead while Donald Trump and his team of billionaires, bigots, and Wall Street bankers crush the working people of our Commonwealth and this country."