Lastest poll: Donald Trump loses ground to Hillary Clinton in Ohio

COLUMBUS — Democrat Hillary Clinton and Republican Donald Trump are evenly split among Ohio voters, with the billionaire businessman losing ground to the former first lady in the past month.

Clinton and Trump also are statistically tied in Pennsylvania, though Clinton leads Trump in Florida.

Those were the results of a new swing state poll released today by the Quinnipiac University Polling Institute, the Connecticut-based group that regularly gauges the opinions of voters in Ohio and other states on candidate and issues.

The latest survey included 971 Ohio voters, 975 Florida voters and 950 Pennsylvania voters. The results have a margin of error of about 3 percentage points.

The Pennsylvania results were in line with a May 10 poll, but Clinton gained ground in Ohio and Florida.

“Secretary Hillary Clinton is pulling ahead in Florida, but the pictures in Ohio and Pennsylvania are much less clear,” Peter Brown, assistant director of the Quinnipiac Poll, said in a released statement. “The at-times bitter verbal battles between Trump and some Republicans leaders is showing in these numbers. In these three key states, Clinton is doing better, and in the case of Florida much better, among Democrats than Trump is among Republicans. Traditionally GOP presidential candidates score better on this party loyalty test.”