Donald Trump is even with Hillary Clinton in another reliably red state

A Tuesday poll showed that Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton are locked in a dead heat in Missouri — a state that has voted for Democrats just three times since 1968.

The poll, conducted by Monmouth University, showed that Trump held a 44% to 43% edge over Clinton with a 4.9% margin of error. The survey contacted 401 likely Missouri voters.

"The race was a squeaker the last time there was a vacancy in the Oval Office," Patrick Murray, director of the independent Monmouth University Polling Institute, said. "In that respect, this year looks more like 2008 than 2012 when [Republican nominee Mitt] Romney won the state by ten points."

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The only Democrats to win in Missouri since the 1968 election were Presidents Jimmy Carter in 1976 and Bill Clinton in 1992 and 1996.

Trump trails Clinton in a head-to-head matchup by 5.5% in the RealClearPolitics average of several polls.

RCP General Election Poll Average - Clinton vs. Trump InsideGov

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