Republican nominee Donald Trump is now tied with Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton in Ohio, a key swing-state, according to Friday’s Suffolk University poll.
Both candidates are tied at 45 percent support in the two-way poll. Trump led Clinton by 3 percentage points in last month’s Suffolk poll, earning 42 percent compared to 39 percent for Clinton.
“The race couldn’t get any closer in the Buckeye State,” director of the Suffolk University Research Center in Boston David Paleologos wrote in the accompanying statement.
“Hillary Clinton has closed the narrow gap with Donald Trump since September, and the final outcome in Ohio could come down to the energy of each candidate’s base and the respective campaigns’ get-out-the-vote operations.”
Libertarian candidate Gary Johnson earned 2 percent, and Green Party candidate Jill Stein earned 1 percent. Five percent of voters remained undecided in the most recent poll.
Trump still leads with Independents in the poll, but his 27 percent lead from last month dropped severely to 6 points in the latest poll.
“If Clinton takes the lead among independents, she wins Ohio. If those remaining undecided independents tip back to Trump, he will prevail,” Paleologos said.
Trump carries a slight lead over Clinton in the Real Clear Ohio state average, earning 44.6 percent compared to Clinton’s 44 percent. Johnson earned 5.6 in the average, and Stein carried 2 percent.
The poll included 500 likely voters that live in the state of Ohio, and ran from Oct. 17 through Oct. 19. The poll carried a margin of error of 4.4 percentage points.
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