Presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton lead presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump in four key swing states, according to a new NBC News/Wall Street Journal/Marist University poll.
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Last Month, Clinton polled six points ahead of Trump, 43 to 37 percent, and her lead has been consistently shrinking.
In North Carolina – a state where President Obama won in 2008 but lost in 2012 – Clinton leads 44 percent to 38 percent.
“Obama had by far the best treatment by late-night comics of any presidential candidate we’ve examined going back to 1992 – and that’s quantifiable”, Lichter said.
The New York Times/CBS News poll released Wednesday shows Clinton tied with Republican Donald Trump nationally, at 40 percent apiece.
Most polls conducted over the past week point to declining support for Clinton, who led Trump by double-digits in April.
And Lawrence James, 55, of Durham, North Carolina, said: “If Trump wins, well, we’ve already checked out Malta and New Zealand”. Patrick Murphy, one of the Democrats seeking his party’s nomination to run for Senate, Rubio was ahead 47 percent to 44 percent. Sanders holds a favorability rating of 54 percent compared to Clinton’s 31 percent and Trump’s 18 percent, with Clinton’s rating having dropped 6 points since the April poll.
The survey of 876 voters conducted by the Marist College Institute of Public Opinion has a margin of error of 3.3 percentage points.
An ad released by her campaign in battleground states on Thursday attempted to reinforce that message, featuring clips of young children watching Trump make some of his more controversial remarks about women and minorities.
Of the 1,001 voters surveyed, 45 percent of those likely to vote said they would vote for Clinton, while only 23 percent said they would vote for Trump, and another 13 percent backed Gary Johnson. Just three weeks ago, Clinton led by eight points there.
On major issues in the race, voters are divided over which candidate they trust more, reflecting the deep divisions in the electorate.
And in Virginia, it’s Clinton 41 percent, Trump 34 percent, Johnson 10 percent and Stein 2 percent.
Then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton checks her mobile phone after her address to the Security Council at United Nations headquarters.
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Twenty-three percent of voters are undecided in that race, the victor of which will take on likely Democratic nominee Chris Koster in November.
