Poll: Clinton up 12 on Trump in Virginia

Hillary Clinton boasts a 12-point lead over Donald Trump in Virginia during the final stretch of the presidential election, according to a new poll.

{mosads}Clinton tops Trump 45 percent to 33 percent in the survey from Christopher Newport University’s Judy Ford Wason Center for Public Policy released Friday. Libertarian nominee Gary Johnson takes 8 percent, followed by independent presidential candidate Evan McMullin’s 3 percent.

Green Party presidential nominee Jill Stein nets 1 percent, while 2 percent are undecided and 5 percent pick no one. Three percent do not know or refused an answer.

Christopher Newport University’s Judy Ford Wason Center for Public Policy conducted its latest sampling of 834 likely voters in Virginia via cell and landline telephone interviews from Oct. 16-19. It has a 3.9 percent margin of error.

Friday’s results indicate a tightening race in the Old Dominion less than a month from Election Day on Nov. 8.

Clinton led Trump by a wider margin in Christopher Newport University’s previous edition of the same poll released last week, when the Democratic presidential nominee took 44 percent to his 29 percent.

Johnson cracked double-digits in that edition with 11 percent, while McMullin nabbed 3 percent and Stein 2 percent.

Clinton has built solid leads over Trump in most national and state polls following controversy over the latter’s alleged sexual misconduct.