Donald Trump is ahead of Hillary Clinton in the key swing state of Virginia in a poll released Wednesday, and it shows the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s announcement of the re-opened case into Hillary’s use of a private email server has likely swung the race Trump’s way.
The Hampton University poll has Trump at 44 percent, Clinton at 41 percent, and 15 percent of voters said they “don’t know” who they support or refused to say who they do. The poll was of 802 registered likely voters and was conducted between October 26 and October 30. It has a margin of error of plus or minus 4.57 percent.
Hampton said that Clinton had a two point lead in the poll before the FBI investigation story broke on Friday, October 28. The poll found that 47.13 percent of Virginia voters believe the most important issue is “working to improve the Economy and create jobs.” The second most important issue for voters is healthcare, 19.08 percent, and third is terrorism, 12.22 percent.
Forty-eight percent to 44 percent, voters polled believed that Trump would be better equipped than Hillary to solve economic issues. Trump was also the candidate that voters found most qualified to handle terrorism, 49.38 percent to 47.38 percent.
Thirty-four percent of voters found Clinton trustworthy, and 42 percent thought the same of Trump. This Virginia poll is somewhat of an outlier most recent polls show Clinton leading in the Old Dominion State.