Unfavorable ratings toward both Clinton and Trump are higher than for any major-party presidential nominee in Post-ABC surveys from 1984 onward. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), who enjoys popularity among progressives.
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The poll surveyed 1,000 adults, including 750 who said they were likely to vote in the November election.
The four-way horserace question – in addition to asking about Clinton and Trump – also listed Gary Johnson (the Libertarian candidate) and Jill Stein (the Green Party candidate) as additional third party options.
Clinton, the poll showed, made gains across nearly all demographics, narrowing Trump’s lead among men and white voters to single digits and building her lead among self-identified moderate voters to 25 percentage-points (58%-33%). About 22.4 percent of likely voters said they would not support either candidate, according to the five-day average of results on Tuesday. Trump is also getting 54 percent support among evangelical Christians while Clinton pulls in 36 percent from the same group.
The poll comes as previous surveys have shown the gap between Clinton and Trump widening.
The last two weeks could frame the rest of the campaign, but the next two weeks can determine if there will be renewed conversation about denying Trump the nomination. In fact, given that her primary rival, US Senator Bernie Sanders, has not conceded the race yet, it is possible her support among her own base could grow quickly and soon. Clinton’s strong lead is likely because Trump’s comments against Judge Gonzalo Curiel rankled so many people.
Only 29 percent of those surveyed in an ABC/Washington Post poll said they had a favorable view of the presumptive GOP presidential nominee.
Meanwhile, Gov. Scott Walker’s numbers are at 39 percent approve of how he’s handling his job, and 57 disapprove.
Trump’s recent slide has reopened an advantage for Clinton, whose 55 per cent unfavourable mark is now 15 points below Trump’s.
Unlike Trump’s foes in the GOP primary, however, Clinton may be better suited to avoid his national-security traps, thanks to her particular strengths with voters and the unique shape of the general-election race. Results have margin of sampling error of 3.5 points.
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It’s a much larger lead than Clinton held in national polls conducted in May and early June, prior to Trump’s accusation that the federal judge in the Trump University lawsuit is biased because his parents were born in Mexico and Trump is advocating a U.S.-Mexico border wall. It is disrespectful to the people who were killed and wounded and their families. That’s down nine percentage points from the March poll.
