Hillary Clinton has surged to a 9-point lead over Donald Trump in battleground Virginia less than one month before Election Day, according to a new Roanoke College poll released Tuesday.
The former secretary of state draws 45 percent support among likely voters in the Old Dominion, while 36 percent of voters currently plan to vote for Trump on Nov. 8. Seven percent of voters back Libertarian nominee Gary Johnson and another 10 percent of voters remain undecided.
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In a two-way race between Trump and Clinton, the Republican presidential hopeful trails his Democratic opponent by 13 points, 51 to 38 percent.
Both major party candidates, whose campaigns have been plagued by separate scandals recently, remain wildly unpopular among Virginia voters. Thirty-nine percent of voters have a positive opinion of Clinton versus 48 percent who view her negatively, while Trump has a net-negative favorability rating of 29-47 percent.
The survey of 814 likely voters in Virginia was conducted between Oct. 2-6, before the release of a 2005 audio tape in which Trump can be heard making sexually explicit comments about women and ahead of the second presidential debate. Results contain a margin of error plus or minus 3.4 percentage points.
