Donald Trump leads Hillary Clinton in Missouri with both white men and women. | Getty Poll: Trump, Clinton knotted in Missouri

Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton are locked in a tight race for Missouri, according to the results of the latest Monmouth University poll of likely voters out Tuesday.

While 44 percent said they will vote for Trump, 43 percent indicated a preference for Clinton, with 8 percent choosing Libertarian nominee Gary Johnson. Another 1 percent said they would vote for another candidate, while 5 percent said they are currently undecided.


Independents slightly favor Trump over Clinton, 40 percent to 35 percent, while 14 percent said they would vote for Johnson.

Among black, Hispanic and Asian voters in Missouri, Clinton holds a 65-point lead (78 percent to 13 percent). Trump has a 13-point advantage with white voters (50 percent to 37 percent).

Clinton is performing slightly higher among non-white voters than President Barack Obama did against Mitt Romney in 2012, when Obama won by 73 points among non-whites and Romney had a 33-point advantage among white voters.

Trump leads with both white men and women, although he is doing 10 points better with white women (54 percent to 36 percent) than he is among men (45 percent to 37 percent). Generally, the gender gap has been in the opposite direction, with white men preferring Trump to a greater degree than white women.

Clinton holds a 19-point advantage—53 percent to 34 percent—over Trump when voters were asked who would do a better job handling race relations in the U.S., an issue that has, in particular, gripped the state following the 2014 police shooting of African-American teen Michael Brown by a white police officer in Ferguson.

In the Senate race, incumbent Republican Sen. Roy Blunt leads Secretary of State Jason Kander, the Democratic candidate, by five points—48 percent to 43 percent. Another 3 percent said they would vote for Libertarian Jonathan Dine, while 7 percent indicated that they are undecided.

Attorney General Chris Koster, leads Republican candidate Eric Greitens by 11 points—51 percent to 40 percent—in the race for governor. Another 3 percent said they would vote for Libertarian candidate Cisse Spragins, while less than 1 percent said they would vote for another candidate and 6 percent were undecided.

Koster is seen by 37 percent as the gubernatorial candidate best equipped to handle race relations in the state, while 26 percent said Greitens would do a better job, 32 percent said they did not know and 5 percent volunteered that neither man would.

Until the 2008 election, Missouri had voted for the winner of the presidential election in every year since 1904, with the exception of 1956. But in both 2008 and 2012, John McCain and Mitt Romney defeated Obama. Romney’s margin over Obama—9 points—was the largest in any presidential election in Missouri since Bill Clinton trounced President George H.W. Bush by 14 in 1992.

Monmouth conducted the survey via landlines and cellphones from Aug. 19-22, surveying a random sample of 401 likely voters. The overall margin of error is plus or minus 4.9 percentage points.