WASHINGTON, D. C. - Former Vice President Joe Biden has an eight-point lead over current President Donald Trump in Ohio, while several other Democratic contenders are virtually tied with Trump in a state that Trump won by eight points in 2016, according to a new poll from Connecticut’s Quinnipiac University.

Trump’s job approval rating was underwater, 43 to 52 percent among the 1,431 Ohio voters who were surveyed, although 58 percent said they are better off financially than they were in 2016.

The poll, which had a 3.2 percent margin of error, found women, black voters and independents gave Biden his lead against Trump.

Biden had a 50-42 percent lead over Trump in the poll. It also found Biden far ahead among the state’s Democratic primary voters, with 31 percent support, compared with 14 percent each for Senators Bernie Sanders of Vermont and Kamala Harris of California, and 13 percent support for Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts. South Bend Indiana mayor Pete Buttigieg followed with 6 percent and eight other candidates including the only Ohioan in the race - Niles Democratic Rep. Tim Ryan - had one percent.

In general election matchups with Trump, the poll indicated the incumbent would get 46 percent of the vote compared with 45 percent for the challenger if Sanders or Warren were on the ballot. With Harris or Buttigeig as the candidate against Trump, the poll found Democrats would get 44 percent of the Ohio vote, and Trump would get 44 percent. Against New Jersey Sen. Cory Booker, Trump had a slight 44 percent to 43 percent lead.

“Former Vice President Joseph Biden calls himself a blue-collar guy,” said a statement from Peter Brown, the poll’s assistant director. “With Ohio certainly a blue-collar state, it is no surprise he is the Democrat who runs best against President Donald Trump and is solidly ahead in the Democratic primary in the Buckeye State.”

Brown also said Biden runs best against Trump in every state poll his university has conducted so far. He attributed Biden’s polling edge to his half century in Democratic politics and his almost universal name recognition.

Ryan’s apparent lack of home state support doesn’t necessarily mean he’d do badly in a future Ohio campaign for statewide office, Brown said in an interview.

“He has not done well in this race, but this is playing in the major leagues,” said Brown. “He is not the only person getting one percent. There are a number of U.S. senators and a couple of governors who are basically in the same position.”