Poll Shows Clinton, Trump Close In Crucial Swing States
NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) -- Election day is less than six months away, and a new Quinnipiac poll has Hillary Clinton narrowly beating Donald Trump in Florida and Pennsylvania, and the billionaire businessman ahead in Ohio.
COMPLETE CAMPAIGN 2016 COVERAGE
The poll shows Clinton at 43 percent and Trump at 42 percent in Florida and Pennsylvania. In Ohio, Trump edges Clinton 43 to 39 percent.
"The presidential races between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump in the three most crucial states, Florida, Ohio and Pennsylvania, are too close to call," said poll assistant director Peter A. Brown. "At this juncture, Trump is doing better in Pennsylvania than the GOP nominees in 2008 and 2012. And the two candidates are about where their party predecessors were at this point in Ohio and Florida."
Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, who trails behind his Democratic rival, leads the likely Republican nominee in all three swing states, the poll found.
Sanders leads the presumptive Republican nominee by two points -- 44 to 42 percent -- in the Sunshine State, and 47 to 41 percent in Pennsylvania. Sanders also leads Trump 47 to 41 percent in Ohio.
No candidate has won the presidential race without taking at least two of the three states since 1960.
The poll surveyed 1,051 Florida voters, 1,042 Ohio voters, and 1,077 Pennsylvania voters between April 27 and May 8. Each state had a margin of error of plus or minus 3 percentage points.
Voters in both parties are heading to the polls Tuesday in the West Virginia primary.
The Republicans are also holding a primary in Nebraska.
