Hillary Clinton holds a six-point lead over Donald Trump in Florida. | Getty Poll: Clinton leads Trump by 6 in Florida

Hillary Clinton holds a six-point lead over Donald Trump in Florida, according to the latest Suffolk University survey of likely voters in the state released Thursday.

Matched head-to-head, Clinton took 48 percent, while Trump earned 42 percent. In a four-way matchup, Clinton grabbed 43 percent, followed by 39 percent for Trump, 4 percent for Libertarian nominee Gary Johnson and 3 percent for Green Party candidate Jill Stein.


Clinton leads Trump by 12 points among women in the two-way ballot test (50 percent to 38 percent) and by 24 points in South Florida (57 percent to 33 percent). Men are split between Trump, who picked up 46 percent to Clinton's 44 percent. Trump performed best in the northern part of the state, outdrawing Clinton 54 percent to 39 percent. The Republican nominee campaigned in Jacksonville, Florida, on Wednesday evening.

Trump trailed Clinton by seven points (37 percent to 44 percent) in an NBC News/Wall Street Journal/Marist poll of registered voters conducted last month. A Quinnipiac University survey taken at the end of June and the beginning of July showed Trump with a three-point edge of 42 percent to 39 percent.

In POLITICO's Battleground States average for Florida polls since the end of June, Clinton leads 44.2 percent to 41.6 percent.

The poll was conducted Aug. 1-3 via landlines and cellphones, surveying 500 likely voters with a margin of error of plus or minus 4.4 percentage points.