Less than two months before Election Day (and less than a month and a half before the start of early voting), where do things stand in the presidential race in North Carolina?
With contrasting results from different polls, all we know is that it’s close.
A survey this week from Quinnipiac University shows Hillary Clinton with a four-point lead on Donald Trump, 47-43 – or 42-38, with Gary Johnson included. (Johnson gets 15 percent.) That’s good news for Clinton – but another survey out this week, from Suffolk University, shows Trump with a three-point lead in North Carolina, 44-41. (Gary Johnson only gets 4 percent in the Suffolk poll.)
What can we tell about the state of the presidential race, in North Carolina and nationwide? WCHL’s Aaron Keck spoke this week with Tom Jensen, director of Raleigh-based Public Policy Polling. (PPP’s latest North Carolina survey showed Clinton with a one-point lead, 45-44.)
The Quinnipiac survey also asked voters about the other two high-profile state races in North Carolina, for Governor and U.S. Senate. There, the results were quite varied: incumbent Republican Senator Richard Burr has a six-point lead on Democratic challenger Deborah Ross, 49-43 – but incumbent Republican Governor Pat McCrory trails Democratic challenger Roy Cooper by seven points, 51-44.
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