Yet come November, as surely as summer turns to fall, the overwhelmingly majority of voters – probably 80% or more – will cast ballots for the two candidates marching beneath their respective party banners.
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Even more, as many as 82 percent of them said they have an unfavorable view of the controversial presumptive Republican nominee, with 63 percent of Latino voters describing themselves as “pessimistic and worried” about a Trump presidency.
The poll of 1,007 likely voters had a margin of error of 3.1 percent.
Now, says Pew, 88% say they will support their presumptive nominee as the Republicans gather in Cleveland to pick the nominee. Warren’s unfavorable rating of 31 percent is also 22 points lower than Clinton’s and 27 points lower than Trump’s.
Pew Research Centre said when it had asked Republican voters their preference for the Republican presidential candidates in March 2015, just one per cent of them supported Trump.
The Bay State senator showed strength in the poll across all regions of the country and doesn’t have the baggage that has hampered Clinton and kept Trump in the race despite his unfavorable rating of 58 percent.
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Almost half of those surveyed (44%) did not support Trump at all over the course of the primaries. Using the words of former Republican opponents against Trump has been a recurring theme of the Clinton campaign already, and they’re clearly hoping that the Governor’s anti-Trump message will strike a chord. First it was riddled with question marks prefacing Hillary Clinton.
