The poll also shows that 75 percent of the participants said their only motivation to vote in the November presidential election was to prevent Clinton or Trump from entering the White House.
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Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump have both slipped in Florida, but she is 7 percentage points ahead of him in an NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll released Friday.
A five-day tracking poll backed by the Los Angeles Times shows Donald Trump leading Hillary Clinton, 43 percent to 40 percent. The margin of error is plus or minus 3.3 points in Florida, North Carolina and Virginia, and 3.5 points for Colorado.
Despite being the prohibitive candidate, Hilary Clinton may not become the Democratic Party’s nominee. The Republicans’ convention in OH expects to see several protests in light of their presumptive nominee’s unpopularity among minority populations.
A staggering 47 percent of Trump supporters and 46 percent of Clinton supporters are only backing their candidate in order to prevent the other candidate from winning – not exactly a ringing endorsement for either of them. Johnson performs well here too – Clinton leads Trump 41% to 34% when he’s included, and he draws 10%. In North Carolina, Clinton gets 2 percent, Trump gets 36 percent, Johnson 7 percent and Stein 2 percent. Fifty-seven percent have an unfavorable view of Clinton, compared to 37 percent who have a favorable view.
With the killings of black men by white police officers and attacks on police last week roiling the country, however, 60 percent of voters said Clinton would be better at handling the issue of race relations.
“The driving force behind voters’ choices is the negative impressions they have of both Trump and Clinton”, Miringoff said.
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. That number dropped to 49 percent when pollsters surveyed registered voters.
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Sen. Bob Casey (D., Pa.) said Democrats in the meeting acknowledged the election would be closer than initially projected. Michael Bennet is ahead of GOP nominee Darryl Glenn by 15 points, 53 percent to 38 percent. The WSJ/NBC/Marist poll results also lend credibility to the thought that the Quinnipiac University polls that showed Trump either leading or tied with Clinton in Pennsylvania, Ohio, and Florida were outliers.
