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Looking at the narrower pool of those likely to turn out in November, the race doesn't change significantly in either state.

Trump's lead in Arizona widens slightly to 7 points, while the 1-point difference between the two candidates in North Carolina shifts to a tied race.

 Likely voters become a more meaningful subgroup as the election gets closer and voters settle on whether they will turn out and whom they will support.

Trump is the choice of 43% of registered voters in Arizona, while Clinton stands at 38%, followed by Libertarian candidate Gary Johnson at 12% and Green Party nominee Jill Stein at 4%. 

In North Carolina, Clinton stands at 44%, Trump at 43% and Johnson at 11%. Stein will not appear on the ballot there.

Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton are neck and neck in North Carolina, a state solidifying its position as an existing presidential election battleground, while Trump holds a 5-point lead in the traditionally GOP-tilting state of Arizona, according to new CNN/ORC battleground state polls.

The education gap among white registered voters that has been among the sharpest electoral divides in pre-election polling on this race thus far continues in both states.

But it is nearly twice as wide a gap in North Carolina as in Arizona.

Clinton tops Trump by 8 points among whites with college degrees in North Carolina, but Trump tops Clinton by a whopping 42 points among those whites without degrees in North Carolina, meaning the education gap there stands at 50 points.

 

 In Arizona, Trump is ahead in both groups, by a statistically insignificant 2 percentage points among those with degrees and a far wider 30 points among whites without degrees, making for a 28-point gap between the two groups.