Hillary Clinton comes out ahead among likely Florida voters, leading Donald Trump by five points in a new Monmouth University poll.
Clinton leads the poll, 46-41, with Libertarian candidate Gary Johnson polling at 6 percent and Green Party candidate Jill Stein at 1 percent.
The Democratic nominee held a larger lead when Monmouth last polled Sunshine State voters in August, when Clinton led by nine points, 48-39, with Johnson at 6 percent and Stein at 1 percent.
But this latest poll marks an improvement for Clinton in Florida from other recent polls. Trump came out ahead by four points in the swing state earlier this month in a CNN/ORC Florida poll.
The Monmouth University poll was conducted via live telephone interview Sept. 16-19 among 400 likely Florida voters, with a margin of error of plus or minus 4.9 percent.
TPM’s PollTracker Average in Florida shows a tossup, with Trump leading Clinton, 46.5 to 45.2.
Maybe some Floridian millenials have seen that link on the internet these days about Jill Stein insulting the US human rights efforts WHILE SHE WAS IN MOSCOW!!! That might account for her drop in the polls, plus Libertarian candidate Gary Johnson saying on the TV machine when interviewed in the last 2 days, “I’m glad no one was injured” when talking about the NYC bombings and the stabbings at the shopping plaza.
As for Trump, perhaps he is losing his magic touch when he looks like he’s been using his Trump Charities as a slush fund to pay over $230K of his own legal bills. Older Floridians might not like that.