Clinton leads Trump in Colorado 43% to 35%.
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Trump leads Clinton 47 percent to 36 percent among likely voters, according to the poll, which was conducted by SurveyUSA and paid for by KSN-TV.
West made the announcement on Thursday, calling Green Party candidate Jill Stein the “only progressive woman in the race”. It reverted red in 2012, but polling has shown Clinton competitive there, drawing significant support from minority communities.
Finally, Clinton leads Trump comfortably in Virginia, 44% to 35%. Johnson performs well here too – Clinton leads Trump 41% to 34% when he’s included, and he draws 10%.
A massive 75 percent of the respondents said the major reason they would vote for one of the major candidates was because “I oppose the other candidate”, with 63 percent saying they would vote for Clinton or Trump because they have “the best positions on issues”, with 14 percent of Clinton and Trump supporters even saying that they would be voting for a candidate that they did not like.
More than half of Trump supporters – 54 percent – said that they had reservations about the real estate mogul, while 42 percent said they would vote for the Republican enthusiastically. Republicans are expected to formally nominate Trump during their four-day gathering next week in Cleveland.
Additionally, the poll found that gender and educational divides continue to shape the 2016 race, with lower-educated male voters favoring Trump, and more highly educated female voters favoring Clinton.
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The NBC/WSJ/Marist polls were conducted July 5-11 of 794 registered voters in Colorado (which has a margin of error of plus-minus 3.5 percentage points), 871 registered voters in Florida (plus-minus 3.3 percentage points), 907 registered voters in North Carolina (plus-minus 3.3 percentage points) and 876 registered voters in Virginia (plus-minus 3.3 percentage points). The two also had high unfavorable ratings in North Carolina, Colorado and Florida.
