Poll: Trump leads Biden in Texas, race virtually tied in Ohio
President Donald Trump is leading Democratic challenger Joe Biden in Texas, and the two candidates are neck and neck in Ohio, according to a new poll released Thursday.
The Quinnipiac University poll shows 50 percent of likely voters polled in Texas support Trump, while 45 percent support Biden. In Ohio, 48 percent support Biden while 47 percent support Trump — a difference inside the survey's 3 percentage point margin of error.
A separate poll conducted by The New York Times and Siena College and released on Thursday found Trump similarly leading in Texas by 3 percentage points, though those figures were inside that poll's 4.3 percent margin of error.
The polls come just over a month before Election Day. Trump won both Texas and Ohio by wide margins in 2016. In both states, more than 90 percent of respondents said they had made up their minds on who they were voting for, according to the Quinnipiac poll.
The Quinnipiac poll also found Ohioans generally had negative impressions of both candidates. Fifty-one percent of respondents in that state said they had a negative view of Trump, while 45 percent they had a favorable one. For Biden, 49 percent of Ohio respondents said they had a negative impression while 45 percent said they had a favorable one.
The poll also found Sen. John Cornyn leading in Texas against his Democratic challenger, MJ Hegar. Fifty percent of respondents to the Quinnipiac poll said they supported Cornyn, while 42 percent backed Hegar.
The poll was conducted from Sept. 17-21 over landline and cell phones, surveying 1,085 likely voters in Ohio and 1,078 in Texas. The margin of error for results from both states was plus-or-minus 3 percentage points.
