Donald Trump is out ahead of his opponent Hillary Clinton by just six points among likely Texas voters, according to a poll released Tuesday by the Democratic-leaning firm Public Policy Polling.
The poll showed Trump leading Clinton 50 percent to 44 percent. Former GOP nominee Mitt Romney won the Lone Star State over President Barack Obama in 2012 by 16 points.
Trump still led Clinton by six points when third-party candidates were included in the race, 44 percent to 38 percent, with Libertarian candidate Gary Johnson polling at 6 percent, the Green Party’s Jill Stein polling at 2 percent, and Independent Evan McMullin, who was included in the questionnaire, sitting at 0 percent.
PPP had not previously polled Texas voters for the 2016 general election. A poll from Dixie Strategies conducted Aug. 8-9 put Trump ahead of Clinton by 11 points, 46 percent to 35 percent.
PPP surveyed 944 likely Texas voters by phone and opt-in internet survey from Aug. 12-14. The poll has a margin of error of plus or minus 3.2 percent.
TPM’s PollTracker Average shows Trump leading Clinton 48.7 to 41.
Don’t worry, it is early in Texas. Time for Trump to screw it up.
Trump: “Winning !”
Trump: I wonder what I have to do to turn these 6% over to Hillary. Why don’t they get it? TX is even stupider than Iowa.
Texas has some of the most horrible elected officials in the country:
Cornyn
Cruz
Abbot
Paxton
Patrick
Sessions
Gohmert
In spite of this barren intellectual wasteland, urban areas of Texas are blue (Austin, Dallas, Houston). There really is reason to be guardedly optimistic about turning Texas pale blue. If something as unthinkable as Trump getting the nomination can happen, maybe a Clinton win in TX isn’t totally out of the question.
Waiting for Trump to tweet the poll results without noting it’s only for Texas.