Trump’s focus on monitoring Muslims within the US and barring Muslim immigrants from the USA was heightened following the horrific attack at the Pulse nightclub last weekend.
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In Utah, the most heavily Republican state in the last presidential election, a Salt Lake Tribune poll out just a few days ago showed Clinton and Trump tied, with Libertarian candidate Gary Johnson claiming the support of 13 percent of respondents.
A spate of new polls released this week show widespread public disapproval of Trump and his candidacy, considerable unease over his response to gunman Omar Mateen’s killing of 49 people in the Florida nightclub, and – at least for now – a 12-point voter preference for Hillary Clinton, the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee who has popularity problems of her own. And while saying that you’ll appoint people like Justice Scalia to the Supreme Court, a man who wouldn’t even overturn laws that put gay people in prison, much less support anti-discrimination laws or allow them to get married.
“President Obama got it right in his statement yesterday, that the politicisation of terror, and the demonisation of Islam and Muslims only furthers the agenda of the terrorists”, he added.
Trump had a slight edge in some polls that asked voters whom they trust to handle terrorism at home or overseas, and a Bloomberg Poll released Tuesday night showed Trump with a narrow edge over Clinton on the issue, 50 percent to 45 percent.
Trump repeated his call for a temporary ban on Muslim immigration to the United States after a USA -born Muslim man with Afghan immigrant parents fatally shot 49 people at an Orlando gay nightclub early on Sunday.
Trump saw a 51 percent disapproval rating, with only 25 percent of likely voters saying that they approved of Trump’s response. That’s true enough, and you can check out Sam Wang’s detailed look at state polls here if you want to really dive into things.
All that said, national polls aren’t totally useless. Four minutes later, his former secretary of state, Hillary Clinton, began speaking at a union hall in Pittsburgh.
According to a CBS News poll, Clinton leads Trump 43% to 37%.
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During the primary, Clinton relied more on positive ads underscoring her personal biography and positions on issues popular with Democrats. That has changed dramatically in this month’s poll, with Clinton’s relatively steady at 56 percent, but Trump’s unfavorability soaring to 69 percent.
