SALT LAKE CITY — Republican Donald Trump has a razor thin edge over independent candidate Evan McMullin in the latest presidential poll of Utah voters.

A UtahPolicy.com survey released Thursday shows Trump with 30 percent, McMullin at 29 percent and Democrat Hillary Clinton getting 25 percent.

The poll by Dan Jones & Associates is among four of the last five polls to have McMullin even with or ahead of Trump in Utah. Clinton has held fairly steady in each of the surveys.

Some news organizations and political pundits have now moved reliably Republican Utah to a battleground or toss-up state.

Lagging behind the top three in the Jones poll are Libertarian Gary Johnson, who has fallen to 4 percent, and Green Party nominee Jill Stein and Constitution Party candidate Darrell Castle with 1 percent each.

Jones surveyed most of the 818 likely Utah voters after vulgar comments Trump made about women surfaced on a videotape, according to UtahPolicy.com. But most of the poll was finished before the final debate Wednesday between Clinton and Trump.

The poll has a plus or minus 4 percent margin of error.

Utah Republicans are divided between Trump and McMullin, with 48 percent backing the billionaire businessman and 37 percent choosing the BYU graduate and former CIA officer.

Among independent voters, Trump falls to third with 20 percent, while McMullin pulls 31 percent and Clinton 27 percent.

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