Hillary Clinton carries a 7-point lead over Donald Trump in New Hampshire, according to a new poll of voters in the smallest battleground state taken after Monday’s presidential debate.
A WBUR poll released Friday shows the Democratic presidential hopeful beating Trump 47 to 38 percent in a head-to-head matchup, and 42 to 35 percent when third-party candidates Gary Johnson and Jill Stein are included. In a two-way race, Clinton also carries a 13-point lead among independent voters, who make up about 40 percent of the New Hampshire electorate.
Clinton was largely seen as the winner of the first presidential debate by voters in the Granite State, with 59 percent saying she emerged on top versus only 19 percent who thought Trump outperformed the former secretary of state. Eight in 10 New Hampshire voters said they watched the 90-minute debate earlier this week.
Trump, who won New Hampshire’s GOP primary in February, leads his Democratic opponent by 9 percentage points among men in the Granite state, though Clinton leads him among women by a much larger margin — 52 to 28 percent.
Clinton spent part of this week campaigning in the Granite State with Bernie Sanders as she looks to shore up support among millennials, but the same poll finds that 72 percent of voters ages 18 to 29 view her unfavorably. Meanwhile, 52 percent of New Hampshire voters under the age of 30 hold a negative view of Trump.
The WBUR survey of 502 likely voters in New Hampshire was conducted Sept. 27-29. Results contain a margin of error plus or minus 4.4 percentage points.
