WASHINGTON Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton received a boost among voters under 30 in key battleground states in a poll conducted after Mondays first presidential debate.
A poll released Thursday by Public Policy Polling shows Clinton with a large lead among voters under 30 a group she has struggled with in Colorado, Florida, North Carolina, Pennsylvania and Virginia.
In all five states, she has at least a 19-point lead with younger voters in the race with Republican Donald Trump.
Colorado: Clinton 50, Trump 27, Libertarian Party candidate Gary Johnson 15 percent, Green Party candidate Jill Stein 2 percent.
Florida: Clinton 54, Trump 28, Johnson 4, Stein 4.
North Carolina: Clinton 46, Trump 27, Johnson 19.
Pennsylvania: Clinton 45, Trump 22, Johnson 11, Stein 4.
Virginia: Clinton 44, Johnson 24, Trump 21, Stein 2.
The poll also showed those voters saw Clinton as the clear winner of Mondays debate with Trump.
Younger voters overwhelmingly supported Clintons primary challenger Sen. Bernie Sanders, and she has struggled to sway them after Sanders dropped out of the race and endorsed her.
Sanders has campaigned for Clinton since the Democratic convention, most recently at the University of New Hampshire on Wednesday.
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi on Tuesday said millennial interest in Johnsons Libertarian campaign is keeping the race between Clinton and Trump close.
Pelosi, D-Calif., added that Clinton is going to have to make her own case to them as well, because you can only transfer so much.
Overall, Clinton has solid leads of 5 to 7 points among all likely voters in Colorado, Pennsylvania and Virginia. In Florida and North Carolina she had a smaller lead of 3 to 4 points 48 percent to 45 percent and 49 percent to 45 percent but within the polls margin of error.
The poll interviewed likely voters on Sept. 27 and 28 through automated phone calls to landlines and online interviews of cell phone only respondents. There were 694 respondents in Colorado, 826 in Florida, 861 in North Carolina, 886 in Pennsylvania and 811 in Virginia. The margins of error for the surveys are 3.7 points, 3.4 points, 3.3 points, 3.3 points and 3.4 points.