Hillary Clinton leads Donald Trump in FL, tied in OH, PA
Hillary Clinton is leading Donald Trump in Florida by 8 percentage points, but they're virtually tied in Pennsylvania and in a dead heat in Ohio, according to a Quinnipiac University poll released Tuesday.
Clinton leads Trump 47 to 39 percent in Florida, they're tied at 40 percent in Ohio and she has a small edge on him, 42 to 41 percent, in Pennsylvania.
The poll focuses on those three key battleground states because no candidate since 1960 has won the presidential race without winning at least two of the three states.
In all three states, a majority of registered voters said Clinton is better prepared to be president and at least a plurality said she would be better at handling immigration and an international crisis. A plurality said Trump would be better at creating jobs and fighting the the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) than Clinton.
The poll surveyed between 950 and 975 voters in each state between June 8 and 19 with a roughly 3 percentage point margin of error.
Clinton leads in a pair of national polls also out Tuesday. NBC News/SurveyMonkey found that Clinton was ahead of Trump by 6 percentage points, up from a 2-percentage-point lead two weeks ago.
The poll also found that Trump's support among likely GOP voters in November has risen over the last week from 84 percent to 86 percent. Ninety percent of likely Democratic voters said they would vote for Clinton. Just over a third of independents, meanwhile, said they would vote for Clinton and the same amount said they'd vote for Trump. That poll surveyed 18,208 adults between June 13 and 19.
Another survey released Tuesday by CNN found that Clinton leads Trump by 5 percentage points nationally. But nearly a quarter of registered voters said they could still change their minds between now and November.
The poll also found Clinton holds an edge over Trump on handling issues like foreign policy, trade, immigration, nominating a Supreme Court justice and LGBT issues. Trump, by contrast, holds the edge on the economy and terrorism.
The CNN poll surveyed 1,001 adults between June 16 and 19 with a 3.5 percentage point margin of error about 1.1 percentage points.