Hillary Clinton looks on as Barack Obama speaks during a campaign rally in Charlotte, North Carolina.
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Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton has widened her lead over her Republican rival Donald Trump in key battleground states, according to a latest opinion poll.
And in Virginia, Clinton gets 43 percent, Trump gets 31 percent, Johnson gets 12 percent and Stein gets 5 percent. This is an improvement for Clinton, as an NBC News poll released last month had her six points ahead. Obama narrowly won the state in 2008 and narrowly lost it four years later.
Wednesday’s data reflect a 2.1 percentage point shift from data collected a day earlier, though Trump still remains above water over the last seven days, posting a net gain of 1.6 percentage points over the course of the poll’s full sample size on the strength of the three previous days where he posted gains on Clinton.
These surveys follow NBC/WSJ/Marist polls earlier this week showing Clinton leading in Iowa, Ohio and Pennsylvania.
Factoring in third-party candidates, the Libertarian nominee Gary Johnson and Green Party nominee Jill Stein, did not have a major impact on Clinton’s margins over Trump in the poll. He ended up winning by two percentage points.
Clinton leads Trump 46%-32% in Colorado, 44%-39% in Florida, 48%-39% in North Carolina and 46%-33% in Virginia, according to new NBC/Wall Street Journal/Marist polls.
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The Trump campaign is clearly aware of the importance of North Carolina in the general election, as the candidate recently made campaign stops in Fayetteville, Wilmington and Raleigh.
