AP Photo Poll: Clinton with slim lead, Senate race tied in New Hampshire

Hillary Clinton has a small lead in New Hampshire, according to the results of a Monmouth University poll released Wednesday, but Donald Trump has shrunk her advantage since the university's last survey of the battleground state.

Clinton leads Trump by 4 percentage points, 46 percent to 42 percent, in the new poll — a much narrower advantage than she held last month, when she led Trump by 9 points. The new survey shows Libertarian nominee Gary Johnson picking up 7 percent support and Green Party candidate Jill Stein at 1 percent, with 4 percent undecided.

Both candidates have high negatives, with 28 percent of respondents viewing Clinton favorably and 61 percent viewing her unfavorably, while 33 percent view Trump favorably, and 57 view him unfavorably.

Clinton leads by double digits among women (56 percent to 31 percent) and college-educated voters (56 percent to 34 percent), while Trump’s double-digit advantage comes with men (54 percent to 34 percent) and voters without a college degree (50 percent to 35 percent).

“Trump’s support among his base voters has ticked up, but not enough to erase Clinton’s overall advantage,” said Patrick Murray, director of Monmouth University’s polling institute.

Meanwhile, New Hampshire’s critical Senate race between incumbent Republican Sen. Kelly Ayotte and Democratic Gov. Maggie Hassan is deadlocked with both candidates getting 46 percent in the poll.

Ayotte and Hassan have an identical net favorability (40 percent favorable, 35 percent unfavorable), but voters are split about the Republican's stance on Trump.

Nearly 3 in 10 said Ayotte, who initially said she would support but not endorse Trump and has since disavowed him, has been “too supportive.” Another 28 percent said she’s given the “right amount of support,” while 24 percent said she hasn’t been supportive enough. Twenty percent said they didn’t know.

In contrast, nearly 50 percent said Hassan has given Clinton the right amount of support, though about 2 in 10 said she has been too supportive of the former secretary of state. Just 5 percent said she hasn’t been supportive enough of Clinton, and 27 percent didn’t know.

Democrat Colin Van Ostern, a state executive council member who trailed by 6 points last month, now leads Republican Chris Sununu, a fellow council member, by 5 percentage points, 48 percent to 43 percent, in the gubernatorial race.

The survey of 401 likely voters was conducted Oct. 22-25 via landlines and cellphones. It has a margin of error of plus or minus 4.9 percentage points.