A new poll released Friday by NBC News/Wall Street Journal/Marist showed Donald Trump trailing Hillary Clinton by crushing margins in four key swing states.
In North Carolina, a state the GOP nominee Mitt Romney won in 2012 and that is crucial to Trump’s path to victory, Clinton leads the real estate mogul among registered voters by nine percentage points, 48 percent to 39 percent.
Clinton bests Trump in Florida, another key state for his electoral map, by 44 percent to 39 percent.
Clinton’s leads over Trump in Virginia and Colorado, two traditionally swing states that went for President Obama in 2008 and 2012, suggest they may no longer be considered battlegrounds, at least in this presidential election. Trump is behind Clinton by 13 percentage points in Virginia, 33 percent to 46 percent, and by 14 percentage points in Colorado, 32 percent to 46 percent.
Factoring in third-party candidates, the Libertarian nominee Gary Johnson and Green Party nominee Jill Stein, did not have a major impact on Clinton’s margins over Trump in the poll. Clinton led Trump by 12 percentage points in Colorado (where Johnson and Stein polled at 15 percent and 6 percent, respectively); by five percentage points in Florida (with Johnson at 9 percent and Stein at 4 percent); by nine percentage points in North Carolina (where Johnson had 9 percent and Stein had 2 percent); and by 12 percentage points in Virginia (with Johnson at 12 percent and Stein at 5 percent).
From August 4-10, NBC/WSJ/Marist surveyed 899 registered voters in Colorado with a margin of error of 3.3 percentage points; 862 registered voters in Florida with a margin of error of 3.3 percentage points; 921 registered voters in North Carolina with a margin of error of 3.2 percentage points; and 897 registered voters in Virginia with a margin of error of 3.3 percentage points.
