A new Indiana poll offers some good news for Donald Trump, who has a double-digit lead over Hillary Clinton in the Hoosier State.
But it’s a different story down-ballot, where Democrat Evan Bayh has a 7-point advantage (48% to 41%) over Rep. Todd Young in their race to replace retiring Republican Sen. Dan Coats.
The Monmouth University poll released Wednesday found Trump with 47% support to Clinton’s 36% among likely voters. Libertarian Gary Johnson garnered 10%, while 5% said they were undecided.
Mitt Romney in 2012 defeated President Barack Obama by 10 points in Indiana after Obama narrowly won the state in 2008.
The Republican-leaning battleground state, home to GOP vice presidential nominee Gov. Mike Pence, offers a break in a series of bad polls for Trump, who has seen his post-convention bounce dissolve in what has been a tumultuous month for the real estate mogul. Recent swing state surveys out of Virginia, North Carolina, Florida, Ohio and Pennsylvania have shown Clinton with growing leads.
Bayh, who once represented the Hoosier State in the Senate and is seeking to return after choosing not to seek re-election in 2010, could supplement his support among Democrats with Trump voters — 16% of whom said they would split their ballots.
Still, Bayh faces some headwinds with voters skeptical of his reasons for returning to politics after years away, with only 31% saying they believed it come from “a desire to serve the public.”
The poll, which reached 403 likely Indiana voters, was conducted from Aug. 13-16. Its margin of error is +/- 4.9%.