US Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders has made gains on Hillary Clinton in two key contests ahead of Tuesday’s contests, a new poll shows.
Sanders is leading Clinton in Missouri and has closed in on her in Ohio and Illinois, according to the survey from the Public Policy Polling (PPP), released on Monday.
The senator from Vermont is trailing the former foreign secretary by just 5 points, 46 percent to 41 percent, in Ohio, where at the beginning of this month Clinton was having a 20 to 30 points lead over Sanders.
The race for the Democratic presidential nomination has tightened since Sanders’ stunning victory in Michigan, where he was trailing by double-digits just weeks before the vote.
Clinton gets 48 percent in the survey compared to 45 percent for Sanders in Illinois. In Missouri, Clinton is trailing Sanders by one point, 47 percent to 46 percent, according to the PPP poll.
However, the Democratic front-runner has larger leads over…