An institute poll in April found Clinton favored by 61 percent of likely millennial voters, and Trump 25 percent.
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This was reflected in a CBS News/New York Times poll that was also released on Thursday and showed the candidates locked in a dead heat at 40 percent.
The poll was conducted July 5-11.
Gary Johnson of the Libertarian Party and Jill Stein of the Green Party have no chance to win the election, but they could have a strong influence.
For Trump, it gives him considerable if not surprising momentum headed into the Republican National Convention in Cleveland, Ohio on July 18-21. Two of these polls were conducted online, using panels that were recruited by traditional mail or telephone surveys, one was conducted by phone.
Hosts of other speakers will address the assembled Democrats in Philadelphia later this month, but those names are expected to be announced later. No candidate since 1960 has been elected without winning two of these three states. But Madonna said the polls indicate a close race this year in the Keystone state.
After a week of scathing Federal Bureau of Investigation assessments over her management of State Department email and the deadly sniper attack on Dallas police officers, Hillary Clinton finds her lead narrowing against Donald Trump. In Pennsylvania, 49 percent to 34 percent. The site says polling right now shows Clinton receiving 47.3 percent of the vote to Trump’s 45 percent, with Johnson pulling 6.4 percent in the state. “Many of them are threatening to not vote for her when they don’t vote in November”. The Trump campaign is neither.
This week, the campaign opened an office in York City. Past campaigns typically roll out the announcement with a cross-platform thunderclap strategy: A physical appearance with the candidates together, a precisely timed social media strategy, fact books to tout the successes of the veep choice, an immediate appeal for donations and a new website. Only half of voters say Mrs. Clinton is prepared to be president, while an astonishing two-thirds say that Mr. Trump is not ready for the job – including four in 10 Republicans. That voters under age 30 tend to lean Democratic isn’t a shock – the group hasn’t backed a Republican for president since 1988, according to network exit polls – but their turnout and strength of support for the Democrat can sway the outcome. In the past the state has counted on a predominance of Cuban Republicans among the Latino electorate, but that has been changing, as seen in 2012. He said in subsequent testimony before Congress that several of Clinton’s assertions about her private email – that there was no classified information contained on the server and that she had turned over all of her work-related emails – were not backed up by facts uncovered by investigators.
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“This will be the most expensive race in the state, and by the end of it, it could be in the top five most expensive nationally”, Madonna said.
