Hillary Clinton leads Donald Trump by just 3 points in New Hampshire, according to a new poll that shows the race is tightening there despite last week’s video showing Trump making lewd remarks about women.
According to the WBUR poll, Clinton leads Trump 41-38, and Libertarian nominee Gary Johnson gets 11 percent of the vote.
In the same poll more than two weeks ago, Clinton held a 7 point advantage. While her support has remained relatively steady, Trump’s support that has risen from 35 to 38 percent.
This is one of the few polls in which Clinton’s lead has not expanded after a video emerged last Friday showing Trump making lewd remarks about women on a hot microphone while talking with then-“Access Hollywood” host Billy Bush. Trump has since apologized for the remarks and called them “locker room talk.”
According to the latest RealClearPolitics average, Clinton leads by just under 4 points in the battleground state.
The poll was taken from Oct. 10-12 and has a margin of error of 4.4 percentage points.
On the Senate side, Sen. Kelly Ayotte is deadlocked with Gov. Maggie Hassan in a race to retain her seat in the upper chamber. The two are currently tied at 47 percent. Hassan previously led the state’s junior senator by 2 points in WBUR’s previous poll, and led by as many as 10 points in early August.
The latest RCP average says Ayotte holds a 2.2-point lead with less than a month until Election Day over the state’s sitting governor, taking 46.5 percent to Hassan’s 44.3 percent.
