While Hillary Clinton earned 44 percent support, Donald Trump took 40 percent. | Getty Poll: Clinton leads Trump in Georgia

Hillary Clinton holds a 4-point lead over Donald Trump in Georgia, a state that has not voted for a Democratic presidential nominee in nearly a quarter-century, according to the results of an Atlanta Journal-Constitution poll out Friday.

While Clinton earned 44 percent support, Trump took 40 percent, in the latest survey coming on the heels of a disastrous week for the Republican nominee in which he has also trailed in the battleground states of New Hampshire, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Florida, and in multiple national polls conducted after last week's Democratic National Convention.


Clinton and running mate Virginia Sen. Tim Kaine drew the support of 51 percent of women, compared with 35 percent for the Republican ticket of Trump and Indiana Gov. Mike Pence. Six in 10 white voters said they will vote for the Trump-Pence ticket, while just 23 percent said they will vote for Clinton and Kaine.

Georgia last voted for a Democratic presidential candidate in 1992, when Bill Clinton unseated George H.W. Bush.

Trump outperformed Clinton among men, white evangelicals, as well as in the northern part of the state (59 percent to 27 percent) and in the Atlanta exurbs (51 percent to 33 percent). But in the immediate Atlanta area, Clinton led Trump 69 percent to 20 percent, as well as in the state's southeast region (44 percent to 34 percent). Clinton also holds advantages among voters ages 18 to 39 (48 percent to 32 percent) and 40 to 64 (45 percent to 40 percent), while Trump leads by a significant margin among those older than 65 (54 percent to 36 percent).

In a four-way ballot test, Clinton holds a 3-point lead over Trump, 41 percent to 38 percent, followed by 11 percent for the Libertarian ticket of Gary Johnson and Bill Weld and 2 percent for the Green Party's Jill Stein and Ajamu Baraka.

The poll was conducted via landlines and cellphones by Abt-SRBI from Aug. 1 to Aug. 4, surveying 847 registered voters, with a margin of error of plus or minus 4 percentage points.

