Hillary Clinton has opened up a 9 percentage point lead on Donald Trump, 47-38, among likely Pennsylvania voters, according to a new poll released Tuesday.
In the new Franklin and Marshall College poll, Clinton’s advantage over Trump expands to 12 percentage points, 48-36, among registered voters.
White voters are crucial to Trump’s efforts to win the Keystone State, but he trails Clinton among both white men and white women. Trump has a 7 percentage point edge on Clinton among whites with no college degree, but the Democratic nominee has a 22 point lead among college-educated white voters.
“More voters continue to believe Secretary Clinton rather than Mr. Trump has the experience to be president, is better prepared to handle foreign policy issues, and has the character and judgment to be president,” the Franklin and Marshall College poll found. “Voters are evenly divided on which candidate has the ability to fix the country’s economic problems and which candidate will change government policies to make voters’ lives better.”
The Keystone State Senate race is similarly shaping up well for Democrats. Incumbent GOP Sen. Pat Toomey trails Democratic challenger Katie McGinty by 6 percentage points among likely voters, 41-35. McGinty leads by 5 percentage points, 36-31, among registered voters.
The Franklin and Marshall College poll surveyed 813 Pennsylvania registered voters, including 496 likely voters, by phone and online from Sept. 28—Oct. 2. The registered voter sample had a 4.8 percentage point margin of error, while the likely voter sample had a 6.1 percentage point margin of error.
