The university’s polling institute also released swing-state polls Thursday showing Clinton holding modest leads in North Carolina and Pennsylvania.
Advertisement
Trump, at 44 percent, leads Clinton who trails him by three points with just 41 percent.
Trump had not been in the lead in OH since May. Libertarian Gary Johnson gets just four percent. White voters back Trump 53 -38 percent, as non-white voters go to Clinton 81 -11 percent.
Those surveyed found that the economy was the most important aspect in the election, with 21% of voters stating that it is the top priority.
During a new conference Thursday before she started a day of campaigning in North Carolina and Missouri, Clinton stood by the comment, saying that ISIS has “said that they hope (Trump) is the president because it would give even more motivation to every jihadi”.
“It’s no surprise she’s resorting to unhinged and dishonest attacks, including claiming on Israeli TV that terrorists are praying for Mr. Trump to win”, Trump communications director Jason Miller said in a statement, “These are the desperate attacks of a flailing campaign sinking in the polls, and characteristics of someone woefully unfit for the presidency of the United States”.
And perceptions of Clinton’s use of a private email server while secretary of state, which came up frequently in Wednesday night’s forum, has shifted over the past year and a half from an issue that voters deemed mostly irrelevant to her character or ability to serve as president to one which nearly two-thirds judge as an indicator of her fitness for the job.
The RealClearPolitics average in North Carolina shows the race being a tie between Clinton and Trump, as over the course of several polls throughout August the race narrowed after Clinton took a 9-point North Carolina lead in an early August NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll. A CBS News poll released last weekend found Clinton leading Trump by four in the state.
Because the poll is conducted online and individuals self-select to participate, a margin of error can not be calculated.
Advertisement
The poll was conducted online from August 29 through September 4 among 32,226 registered voters, including 3,358 who have previously served or are now serving in the USA military. The margin of error is plus or minus 4.4 percentage points. Ultimately, though, Trump is making a dent in the black community in North Carolina, garnering seven percent of the vote.
