--- title: Hillary Clinton Expands Donald Trump Lead in 3 Key States description: Iowa, Ohio and Pennsylvania will be important battlegrounds for the candidates canonical: https://time.com/4445780/hillary-clinton-donald-trump-iowa-pennsylvania-ohio-poll/ author: Sarah Begley article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-08-09T21:54:37.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-10-06T09:46:05.362Z article:section: Politics og:title: Poll: Hillary Clinton Expands Lead Over Donald Trump in 3 Key States og:description: Iowa, Ohio and Pennsylvania will be important battlegrounds for the candidates og:url: https://time.com/4445780/hillary-clinton-donald-trump-iowa-pennsylvania-ohio-poll/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt3138847b34299dd4/6988a1c1e20a873ddda91fd7/hillary-clinton.jpeg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 3000 og:image:height: 1688 og:image:alt: Hillary Clinton And Tim Kaine Take Campaign Bus Tour Through Pennsylvania And Ohio og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Poll: Hillary Clinton Expands Lead Over Donald Trump in 3 Key States twitter:description: Iowa, Ohio and Pennsylvania will be important battlegrounds for the candidates twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt3138847b34299dd4/6988a1c1e20a873ddda91fd7/hillary-clinton.jpeg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Poll: Hillary Clinton Expands Lead Over Donald Trump in 3 Battleground States > Sponsored content. 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Following his acceptance of the presidential nomination for the Republican party, Donald Trump has made a number of political gaffes._ by [Sarah Begley](https://time.com/author/sarah-begley/) ## Sarah Begley Aug 9, 2016 9:54 PM UTC by [Sarah Begley](https://time.com/author/sarah-begley/) ## Sarah Begley Aug 9, 2016 9:54 PM UTC New [polling](http://www.nbcnews.com/politics/first-read/polls-clinton-ahead-trump-midwest-battlegrounds-n626541?cid=sm%5Ftw) reveals that [Hillary Clinton](http://time.com/4445467/donald-trump-hillary-clinton-second-amendment-judges/) has expanded her lead over [Donald Trump](http://time.com/money/4444178/trump-economic-plan-criticism/) in three key states after the Republican and Democratic conventions. The latest numbers from NBC/WSJ/Marist show that in a two-way face-off, Clinton increased her lead over Trump from three points to four points among registered voters in Iowa, from nine points to 11 points in Pennsylvania, and from a tie to a five-point lead in Ohio. Expanded to a four-way race including Gary Johnson and Jill Stein, the new polls reveal a Clinton-Trump tie in Iowa, a four-point Clinton lead in Ohio, and a nine-point Clinton lead in Pennsylvania. “These three states are key ingredients in Trump’s formula for success and a region where Trump was hoping \[running mate Mike\] [Pence](http://time.com/4431311/mike-pence-donald-trump-name-calling/) would provide a boost,” Lee Miringoff, director of the Marist College Institute for Public Opinion, told NBC News. “Yet Trump is coming up short in his bid to change the electoral map. Given that Clinton has many more paths to the White House, these poll results are a warning sign for the Trump effort.” The NBC/WSJ/Marist polls took place from Aug. 3 to 7 and included between 800 and 900 registered voters in each state, with margins of error of +/-3.3 to 3.4 percentage points. \[[NBC News](http://www.nbcnews.com/politics/first-read/polls-clinton-ahead-trump-midwest-battlegrounds-n626541?cid=sm%5Ftw)\] ## Transcript I humbly and gratefully accept your nomination for the presidency of the United States. Why did Hillary get rid of her middle name? Hillary, no but why did she get rid of it? Hillary Rotten Clinton. She'll go home, she'll take a nap for four or five hours, then she'll come back. No naps for Trump! No nap! I don't take naps! Her running mate, Tim Kaine, who by the way did a terrible job in New Jersey, first act he did in New Jersey. Was asked for a $ 4 billion tax increase and he was not very popular in New Jersey. If you look at his wife she was standing there. She had nothing to say. She probably maybe she wasn't allowed to have anything to say. But he made a deal with the devil. She's the devil. He made a deal with the devil. Thousands of people outside, thousands, that were turned away by For political reasons. Purely for political reasons. Hillary wants to abolish, essentially abolish the second amendment. By the way and if she get's to pick, if she get's to pick Her judges, nothing you can do folks. [ APPLAUSE ] Although the second amendment people maybe there is I don't know. 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