The last time Trump came close to Clinton’s popularity was in early May, when his last two rivals for the Republican nomination dropped out of the race and party leaders started to line up behind his campaign.
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That’s the percentage of African-American voters who picked Donald Trump over Hillary Clinton in the battleground states of OH and Pennsylvania, according to the latest NBC News/Wall Street Journal/Marist polls.
The new survey found that 67 percent of voters say she is not honest and trustworthy, up 5 percent since the same poll last month before the Federal Bureau of Investigation released its findings.
The poll found Americans hold resoundingly negative opinions of both candidates.
In the meantime, evidence is accumulating that the sharp criticism voiced last week by the head of the FBI, James Comey, of Ms Clinton and her failure to follow proper procedures to keep her emails secure while Secretary of State has gravely impaired her standing amongst voters.
Surprisingly, Cruz also sparked the most “haha” reactions, but as TrackMaven says, it’s unclear whether users were laughing with the senator or at him.
As with all polls, it is important to take the results with a grain of salt.
And her campaign website is advertising an event Saturday at a Pokestop in Lakewood, Ohio – a suburb of Cleveland, which will host the Republican National Convention next week.
Three new polls from Gravis Marketing show Donald Trump close behind Hillary Clinton in Iowa and Colorado, but still lagging in MI. She is much more qualified to be president and her policies will do more than Trump’s to move our country forward.
Hillary Clinton’s campaign released a new television ad begging the question: What kind of example is Donald Trump setting for children?
Trump continues to face formidable obstacles to winning. Even as the new surveys show the race tightening, he has not significantly increased his support: Since February, when he began to dominate the Republican primaries, his support in head-to-head matchups with Clinton has rarely risen above 40%.
A set of Quinnipiac University polls released Wednesday brought welcome news for those aboard the Trump Train, with Trump edging Clinton 42% to 39% in Florida and 43% to 41% in Pennsylvania, while the pair tied at 41% each in Ohio. In April, a similar Marist poll found Clinton with a nine-point lead.
Sixty-seven percent of voters say she is “not honest and trustworthy”, Thursday’s poll found.
According to the survey, Trump’s greatest victory is the solidification of IN, where he now holds an 11-point advantage over Clinton – though traditionally IN tends to go Republican IN national elections.
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The Reuters/Ipsos poll surveyed 1,146 likely voters across the continental United States, Alaska and Hawaii. Other candidates for the number two slot include former House speaker Newt Gingrich and New Jersey Governor Chris Christie.
