Hillary Clinton has a double-digit lead over Donald Trump in a new national poll released Tuesday.
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More than half of those surveyed (55%) said they would never vote for Trump. The margin of error for questions asked of all participants was 3.1 percentage points, while the questions geared to likely voters have a 3.6 percent margin or error.
“Clinton has a number of advantages in this poll, in addition to her lead”, Selzer said, according to Bloomberg.
Notably, men overall are disenchanted with both candidates – a record 63 percent see Clinton unfavorably, while 62 percent say the same about Trump.
In true Trump fashion, even when he’s losing, he spins it as a victory. Trump’s rated favorably just by 65 percent of Republicans, Clinton by 75 percent among Democrats – neither monolithic in their home corner. For decades, female voters have made up a majority of the electorate.
Photos besides the ones showing the former president with Trump will also be published, including Clinton greeting personnel at Trump Tower, and Clinton greeting people and watching the U.S. Open, because they were on the same rolls of film.
Donald Trump told his supporters to “ask the gays” if he was an LGBT-friendly candidate during a speech at the Fox Theatre in Atlanta this Wednesday – and Twitter blew up.
The survey, from Bloomberg Politics, finds Clinton leading Trump by 12 points (49 percent to 37 percent) among likely voters nationally.
After contentious primaries, candidates typically receive a bump in their support in polls after securing their party’s nomination. He drew the condemnation of top members of his party over his claims that a federal judge presiding over Trump University lawsuits is biased because the judge is of Mexican descent.
Some political observers speculated that the shooting could benefit Trump, who has experienced a surge in polls after suggesting that the United States should bar all Muslims from entering the USA in the wake of a terrorist attack in San Bernardino, California.
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All of the surveys conducted are of registered voters, not likely voters, because the election is still five months away.
