Poll: Clinton, Trump virtually tied in Ohio

Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump are neck-and-neck in the swing state of Ohio less than a month from Election Day, according to a poll released Thursday.

{mosads}Trump, the Republican presidential nominee, leads his Democratic opponent by 1 point in the NBC News/Wall Street Journal/Marist survey, 42 percent to 41 percent, well within the poll’s margin of error.

Libertarian presidential nominee Gary Johnson then takes 9 percent, followed by Green Party nominee Jill Stein’s 4 percent.

Thursday’s results show Clinton and Trump deadlocked at 45 percent each in a two-person race.

Clinton has been pulling ahead in most battleground states amid a disastrous month for Trump. Though Ohio has been slower to turn against the real estate mogul, Thursday’s results put it within striking distance for Clinton.  

An Emerson College poll also released Thursday found Clinton leading Trump by 2 points in the Buckeye State.

No modern Republican candidate has ever taken the White House without winning Ohio.

NBC News/Wall Street Journal/Marist conducted its latest sampling of 724 likely voters in Ohio via interviews from Oct. 10 to 12. It has a margin of error of 3.6 percentage points.