Poll: Trump up by 1 point over Clinton in NC

Donald Trump is leading Hillary Clinton by 1 point in the swing state of North Carolina, according to an Elon University poll released Tuesday.

{mosads}Trump, the Republican presidential nominee, claims 44 percent support among the state’s likely voters, while Clinton, the Democratic nominee, gets 43 percent. Six percent are backing Libertarian Party nominee Gary Johnson.

Clinton continues to dominate among black voters, with 98 percent support. The remaining 2 percent said they plan to vote for Trump.

Sixty-five percent of white voters back Trump, and 35 percent support Clinton.

Though Trump leads in the state, 60 percent of likely voters disagree with his assertion that Russian President Vladimir Putin has been a stronger leader than President Obama. Twenty-three percent say Putin was a better leader.

Nearly a third of all voters, 32 percent, say that Clinton is not physically healthy enough to be president, while 54 percent say she is.

For comparison, 77 percent say Trump is healthy enough to be president, while 11 percent say he’s not.

The results are based on a sample of 644 likely voter surveyed from Sept. 12 to Sept. 16. The poll has a margin of error of 3.86 percentage points.

The RealClearPolitics average of polls has Clinton up by a little more than 1 point nationally.