Poll Shows Trump Leading in Key Swing States

A poll released by Quinnipiac College shows that Donald Trump has overtaken Hillary Clinton in key swing states after a week of attacks on her trustworthiness following the results of an FBI investigation into her email server.
Poll Shows Trump Leading in Key Swing States
Republican Presidential candidate Donald Trump after a campaign rally at the Sharonville Convention Center July 6, 2016, in Cincinnati, Ohio. Trump is campaigning in Ohio ahead of the Republican National Convention in Cleveland next week. (John Sommers II/Getty Images)
7/13/2016
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7/13/2016

The importance of these three states has larger implications to the general election. No presidential candidate has won an election since 1960 without winning at least 2 of these 3 states.

Florida, in particular, is a notorious swing state which decided the outcome of the election in 2000 when there was a long recount process that ended in George W. Bush winning the presidency against then-Vice President Al Gore.