Bernie Sanders is winning with white men and voters under 50. | AP Photo Sanders closing the gap with Clinton in new national poll

Hillary Clinton still leads Bernie Sanders nationally, but the Vermont senator is rapidly gaining on her.

A new NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll of U.S. Democratic primary voters out Thursday found that Clinton has an 11-point lead, with 53 percent support to Sanders' 42 percent. But just last month, the former secretary of state had a 25-point advantage, with the support of 59 percent of those surveyed, compared to Sanders' 34 percent.


The tightening of the race follows Sanders’ big win in New Hampshire (by 22 points) and his loss by a fraction of a percent in Iowa.

Clinton leads Sanders 2-to-1 with minorities, 62 percent to his 33 percent. And the former secretary of state also holds the lead with women (58 percent to 39 percent), with voters over age 50 (62 percent to 31 percent), and with self-identified Democrats (58 percent to 37 percent).

But Sanders is winning with white men (54 percent to 41 percent) and voters under 50 (57 percent to 40 percent). He also has double her support with independents, 61 percent to 33 percent.

The poll of 400 U.S. Democratic primary voters was conducted Feb. 14-16 with a margin of error of plus or minus 4.9 percentage points.