Clinton leads by 9 in Ohio — and pulls into a tie in Utah

Donald Trump's comments about women just might cost him Ohio and Utah. New polls of the states taken after the Friday release of a tape featuring the GOP nominee bragging about groping women show Trump either behind or tied with Hillary Clinton.

In the key swing state of Ohio, Clinton boasts a 9-point lead over Trump in a four-way race, 43 percent to 34 percent, in a statewide poll conducted by Baldwin Wallace University. That's a much bigger lead than other polls of the Buckeye State have found Clinton to have, as the RealClearPolitics polling average shows Clinton ahead by a mere 0.5 points.

Meanwhile in Utah, a historically red state, Trump and Clinton are tied with 26 percent support from likely Utah voters in a poll by the Salt Lake City-based Y2 Analytics. Long-shot independent candidate Evan McMullin is just 4 points behind with 22 percent support, and Libertarian candidate Gary Johnson has 14 percent. This poll's results also mark a big divergence from what other polls have been finding in the state; the RealClearPolitics polling average for Utah has Trump ahead by an average of 13 points.

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The Ohio poll surveyed 1,152 likely voters in the Buckeye State from the end of the debate Oct. 9 through the evening of Oct. 11. Its margin of error is plus or minus 3 percent. The Utah poll surveyed 500 likely Utah voters by phone from Oct. 10-11 and has a margin of error of plus or minus 4.4 percent.