As a result, a new tracking poll from the Los Angeles Times finds Trump with a slight lead of three points. The most recent polls have been all over the place with a Quinnipiac poll showing Trump leading in Florida by 3 points earlier this week.
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In all, 69 percent of Hispanic voters insist they have a favorable opinion of Clinton, compared to 77 percent who state they have a negative image of Trump, including 73 percent of Latino voters who openly admit they believe the New York City real estate mogul to be a racist.
Public polling should always be taken with a grain of salt, as it tends to bounce around a lot more than the race actually moves, and looked at in its entirety rather than at specific races.
None of these states are very close, as this was the third swing state poll in the last two days to show Clinton leading Trump in states are expected to be up for grabs in November. “Clinton’s single-digit lead in each of these states is due to her slight advantage in how voters perceive the two candidates”.
Stein is now polling well behind Clinton and Trump. In April, she led by ten points.
Friday’s poll revealed that Clinton’s lead is increasing in Florida to seven points, 44 to 37 percent. Catholics also lean toward Clinton, though they are sharply divided along racial and ethnic lines; Hispanic Catholics overwhelmingly favor Clinton over Trump, while white Catholics are evenly divided between those who prefer Trump and those who favor Clinton.
More than half of Americans think the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee broke the law by using a private email account and server at the State Department and almost 4 in 10 think she did so intentionally, according to the poll.
Among Republican voters, 74% said Mr. Trump best represented their health care views, while 11% said Ms. Clinton did, and 13% said neither did. In fact, Trump’s imaginary ads have been seen by almost as many voters as have seen the 31,000 real ads that have been aired by Clinton and her super-PACs (52 percent). And though the Clinton campaign is keeping the vice presidential selection process tightly under wraps, many Democrats in Washington see Kaine as the front-runner.
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Additionally, 56 percent of the voters said they would feel afraid of Trump’s possible victory while 48 percent say they would regret it. The Harvard Institute of Politics Poll was conducted online June 21-July 3 among 1,001 18-29 year olds, and has an error margin of plus or minus 3.5 percentage points.
