Democrats across North Carolina are leading their Republican counterparts in major races across the Tar Heel state, according to the newly released poll from NBC News and the Wall Street Journal.

Starting at the top of the ticket, Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton is leading the Republican candidate Donald Trump 45-36. Libertarian Gary Johnson garnered support from nine percent of those surveyed with another two percent going to Green Party candidate Jill Stein.

The 36 percent support for Trump is unchanged from the July survey, but Clinton’s numbers improved by three points.

At the state level, Democratic Attorney General Roy Cooper is leading Republican incumbent Governor Pat McCory in the race for the Executive Mansion by a 51-44 margin.

Democratic United States Senate candidate Deborah Ross has been closing in on the Republican incumbent Richard Burr in recent months as the campaign is heating up. In the new survey numbers, Ross has a 46-44 lead over Burr.

Public Policy Polling director Tom Jensen recently said on WCHL earlier in the week that some of the down-ticket races may be impacted by the campaign that Trump is running for president. The most recent PPP survey showed Clinton and Cooper with leads in their respective races, although the margin was closer than the NBC/WSJ poll. Burr was leading Ross in the PPP survey.

North Carolina has been a popular destination for each of the presidential campaigns as Election Day is approaching in November. Some analyst have called North Carolina a “must-have state” if Trump is going to win the White House.

While Clinton’s lead has expanded in North Carolina and some other battleground states, Jensen said he expects those numbers to settle back in closer where they were prior to each major party convention as the election gets closer.

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