Hillary Clinton Leading Donald Trump By 4 Points in Georgia

A new Washington Post poll has Democratic White House contender Hillary Clinton up by four points over Donald Trump in Georgia.

The poll's results were released before the candidates' final debate Wednesday night in Las Vegas.

The Washington Post/SurveyMonkey poll also shows Clinton leading Trump in electoral college votes to put her over the 270 majority needed to win the White House on Nov. 8.

Clinton is holding leads of four percentage points or more among likely voters in states that add up to 304 electoral votes.

Conservative political commentator Erick Erickson tweeted that GOP internal polling in Georgia has Clinton up by five points.

In other recent national polling, Clinton leads head-to-head match-ups against Trump, with the Democrat holding 47.7 percent support compared to 42.2 percent for the New York businessman, according to averages compiled by RealClear Politics. The poll was conducted among 1,999 registered voters Oct. 13-15 and has a margin of error of plus or minus two percentage points.

Tonight's Debate

Tonight's debate will be streamed live from Patch, as Trump and Clinton will face off at University of Nevada in Las Vegas.

Trump has stepped up his attacks against Clinton, the media, House Speaker Paul Ryan and the Republican establishment as his campaign is in the midst of careening out of control after a video from 2005 surfaced in which the New York businessman boasts about how being a "star" allows him to kiss, grope and have sex with women whenever he sees fit.

In what may be a sign of things to come, the Republican presidential nominee chose President Barack Obama's Kenyan-born half-brother, Malik, as one of his guests for Wednesday night's debate.

Chris Wallace of Fox News, the moderator of the third presidential debate, will certainly have his work cut out for him based on the first two Clinton-Trump match-ups.

• When: Wednesday, Oct. 19, 2016
• Time: 9 p.m. until 10:30 p.m. EST; no commercial breaks
• Where: University of Nevada — Las Vegas, Las Vegas, Nevada
• Who: Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump, Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton, moderator Chris Wallace of Fox News; Libertarian nominee Gary Johnson and Green Party nominee Jill Stein failed to make the debate based on recent polling.
• Format: The debate will be divided into six time segments of approximately 15 minutes each on major topics to be selected by the moderator, according to the Commission on Presidential Debates. The moderator will open each segment with a question, after which each candidate will have two minutes to respond. Candidates will then have an opportunity to respond to each other. The moderator will use the balance of the time in the segment for a deeper discussion of the topic.

Early, in-person voting in Georgia began Monday, with more than 146,000 ballots cast on the first day.

• See also: More Than 146,000 Ballots Already Cast in Georgia

Georgia has been solidly Republican for the last several presidential election cycles, but earlier in this year's campaign, both Clinton and Trump were investing in the Peach State. Former president Bill Clinton was in Atlanta in late August, raising money for his wife's campaign, while Donald Trump Jr. held a fundraiser for his father last week.

Trump expanded his Georgia campaign staff in August, following a fundraiser hosted, in part, by Home Depot co-founder Bernie Marcus and Charles Loundermilk, founder of Aarons.

• See also: Hillary Voters Like Honda Civics; Trumpsters Prefer F-150s

»Photo credit: Hillary Clinton, Donald Trump photos byGage Skidmore, Flickr Commons