In Ohio, Donald Trump has extended his lead to five percentage points. | Getty CNN poll: Trump up 5 on Clinton in Ohio

Donald Trump holds a slight lead over Hillary Clinton in Ohio and Florida, according to new CNN polling that shows an increasingly tight race in the key battleground states.

In Ohio, Trump has extended his lead to five percentage points, with 46 percent of likely voters backing his candidacy to Clinton’s 41 percent. Third-party candidates Gary Johnson and Jill Stein lag behind at 8 and 2 percent, respectively. Results out of Florida shows an even tighter race, with voters split 47 percent for Trump and 44 percent for Clinton – within the poll's 3.5 percent margin of error – while the Libertarian ticket pulls in 6 percent of the vote to and the Green Party’s 1 percent.


The results echo an earlier Bloomberg Politics poll that also showed Trump leading Clinton by five in Ohio.

The polls come on the heels of one of Hillary Clinton’s worst general election stretches and show an increasingly competitive race with eight weeks to go before the election.

Clinton, who has seen her national advantage over Trump diminish in recent weeks, continues to lead the Republican nominee by wide margins among non-white voters, with the gap in support between the two candidates growing as large as 43 points in Florida and a whopping 70 points in Ohio. Trump, meanwhile, continues to lead among white voters, leading by 29 in Florida and 22 in Ohio.

On the topic of foreign policy, which both campaigns have made a central theme in recent weeks, Clinton continues to be seen by voters in those states as better apt to handle the responsibilities of being commander in chief. Trump earns high marks among voters on the issues of immigration, terrorism and the economy.

The CNN/ORC poll was conducted via cellphone and landlines from Sept. 7-12, sampling 1,003 adults in Florida and 1,006 in Ohio. The Ohio sample includes 769 likely voters while Florida includes 788 likely voters, each with a margin of error of plus or minus 3.5 percentage points.