While Donald Trump is the assumed Republican candidate for president, Bernie Sanders has slightly closed the gap with current Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton according to a recent poll.
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New polls show that the race between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton is very tight in three battleground states.
Trump garnered 54 percent compared to Clinton’s 25 percent in a survey of 951 active-duty service members. In a Trump-Clinton matchup, 21 percent said they would not vote at all. Bernard Sanders leads Trump by 10 points, 47 percent to 37 percent, with Johnson at 3 percent and Stein at 1 percent, the survey shows.
Quinnipiac noted that the poll focused on Florida, Ohio and Pennsylvania because no U.S. presidential candidate has won an election without taking at least two of the three states. And while white voters consistently favor Trump, non-white voters back Clinton by huge margins.
Both Trump, a part-time Palm Beach County resident, and Clinton, who has a broad South Florida network of friends and political donors, share a dubious distinction: Neither is well-liked.
The poll of likely voters also finds Clinton still struggling to shake the negative image that has haunted her throughout this campaign. She doesn’t fair much better in Pennsylvania or Florida as she views favorably by only 37% and unfavorably by 58% and 57% respectively.
Female troops favored Clinton over Trump, by a 51 percent to 24 percent margin. In Florida she is up 13 points among women but down 13 points among men. Miami-Dade was the only county Trump lost in the Republican primary, to hometown favorite Marco Rubio.
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Ohioans say Trump would do a better job with the economy, while Clinton is more intelligent and has a better temperament to handle an worldwide crisis.
