Hillary Clinton has a 1-point advantage over Donald Trump among likely voters in North Carolina, 47 percent to 46, according to a Monmouth University poll released Monday.
{mosads}Libertarian nominee Gary Johnson has the support of 4 percent of likely voters.
The polls show similar numbers to a survey taken in late August, when Clinton led Trump by 2 points, 44 to 42 percent. In that poll, Johnson had 7 percent of the vote.
In the new survey, Clinton has a large lead among black, Hispanic and Asian voters, 78 percent to 16 percent.
Trump has an advantage among white voters, 59 to 35 percent. The GOP nominee leads among both white men, 60 percent to 32, and white women, 58 percent to 38.
He has also increased his lead among white voters without a college degree, 72 percent to 23.
Clinton leads among white voters with a college degree, but by a smaller margin, 50 percent to 43.
Both Trump and Clinton are viewed unfavorably by a majority of voters.
In North Carolina’s Senate race, Sen. Richard Burr leads Democratic challenger Deborah Ross, 49 percent to 43. Burr has increased his lead over Ross from an August poll, when he had only a 2-point advantage.
The poll was conducted from Oct. 20 to 23 among 402 likely North Carolina voters. The margin of error is 4.9 percentage points.
According to the RealClearPolitics average of polls, Clinton has a 2.1-point lead over her Republican rival in the Tar Heel State, 46.1 percent to 44.