In the WSJ/NBC Marist surveys, both candidates are slowed by steadfastly high unfavorable ratings, with significant majorities in all four states saying they have negative views of Clinton and Trump.
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In Florida, Clinton gets 41 percent of the respondents, Trump 36 percent, Johnson 7 percent, and Stein 4 percent. In recent Reuters/Ipsos polling, only about 40 percent of Mr. Sanders’ backers said they would back Mrs. Clinton, and the crowd at Tuesday’s rally made it clear she still had work to do.
She called on Latino voters to help stop what she called GOP rival Donald Trump’s efforts to “fan the flames of racial division”.
The AP-GfK Poll of 1,009 adults was conducted online July 7-11, using a sample drawn from GfK’s probability-based KnowledgePanel, which is created to be representative of the US population.
The four states combine to give the victor 66 electoral votes in the November election. This is down from the 15 point lead Clinton had in April’s NBC News/Wall Street Journal/Marist Poll. Sixty-one percent say “no”.
In Florida, Quinnipiac found Trump up 3 percentage points to Clinton, 42 per cent-39 per cent.
Jill Stein, the presidential candidate of the far-left Green Party, compared Hillary Clinton to Donald Trump on Thursday while talking with Meet the Press Daily’s Chuck Todd.
Several of Trump’s controversial and off-the-cuff comments have inspired riffs on the silver screen, including a rant from Daily Show alum John Oliver on his HBO show “Last Week Tonight”, but the center’s director Robert Lichter said Clinton has borne the brunt of several jokes in recent weeks because of her email scandal.
Perhaps even more surprising is that Libertarian Party nominee Gary Johnson is running neck-and-neck with Republican Trump among multiple groups of voters ages 18-29, the poll found.
Given their current choices, however, seven in 10 young adults say they would like for a third-party candidate to run, according to the GenForward survey, while just three in 10 say they are satisfied with the choice of Clinton or Trump.
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A potential Trump presidency was seen to be scarier than that of Clinton; 33 percent said they would be afraid if Trump was elected and 25 percent said they would be afraid of Clinton. In North Carolina he’s at 31 percent favorable, 61 percent unfavorable. “He has wiped out Hillary Clinton’s lead in Florida, is on the upside of too-close to call races in Florida and Pennsylvania and is locked in a dead heat in Ohio”.
