The margin of error was plus or minus 3.4 percentage points.
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The poll, released Wednesday, shows Democrat Hillary Clinton leading Republican Donald Trump 47 to 44 percent in a head-to-head matchup.
Antipathy toward the opposing candidate is a strong rationale for support among the voters surveyed. The poll shows she is getting the support of 97 percent of Democrats, while Trump is getting the support of just 85 percent of Republicans.
Among Trump supporters, 28 percent are pro-Trump and 53 percent say they are anti-Clinton.
A new Quinnipiac University poll of swing states finds the presidential race is “a virtual tie” in Iowa. He credited the growth of Democratic-leaning suburbs in Northern Virginia for Clinton’s popularity there.
In one-on-one matchups between Donald Trump and Clinton, the Democratic nominee is ahead by double-digits in Virginia and Colorado. And he noted that the race is closer in Iowa, largely because it’s predominantly white, and Clinton runs especially strong among minority voters.
Clinton’s speech is a part of a coordinated effort by her campaign in key battleground states to emphasize how tax breaks for the wealthy proposed by Trump “would come at great cost to much-needed investments in infrastructure, education, health care, and other priorities”.
“More law enforcement, more community engagement, more effective policing is what our country needs”, Trump said. And Gary Johnson? Only 3% of the likely voters said they would vote for him if the election was today.
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But it’s not all bad news for Trump, who enjoys an 11-point edge over Clinton in IN, a state that went narrowly for President Barack Obama in 2008 before swinging to Mitt Romney, who won there by 10 points in 2012.
