Source: Colin Campbell, NEWS & OBSERVER, 10/18/16


Democrat Hillary Clinton’s increasing lead in national polls is also reflected in polls of likely voters in North Carolina – a key swing state that Republican Donald Trump needs to win the election. As of Tuesday afternoon, RealClearPolitics’s polling average has Clinton with a 2.7 percentage point lead over Trump (46 percent for Clinton, 43.3 percent for Trump and 5.8 percent for Libertarian Gary Johnson). 

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