A new poll of New Hampshire shows Clinton with a commanding 15-point lead over Donald Trump, finding Granite State Democrats coalescing around their nominee after their convention while state Republicans remain resistant to Trump.
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The results mark the latest in a string of national and battleground state polls showing Clinton with a growing base of support and, on Thursday, hints that she could be making inroads with male voters.
The poll also found a majority of MI voters – 61% – say Trump is “ill-prepared to be commander in chief”.
Trump, in recent days, however, has sought to refocus. Earlier polls Thursday also showed Clinton holding leads in the key states of Pennsylvania, New Hampshire, Florida, and MI.
In an NBC News-Wall Street Journal poll, Clinton’s edge is 9 points (47 percent to 38 percent), cushioning what was a 5-point advantage in early July.
The survey, in the college’s 25th year of consecutive polling in Pennsylvania, included 661 registered voters in Pennsylvania, 321 Democrats, 257 Republicans and 83 Independents.
Mr. Trump leads among white voters (45 percent to Clinton’s 40 percent), seniors (46 percent to 43 percent), independents (36 percent to 32 percent) and white voters without a college degree (49 percent to 36 percent).
Meanwhile, Trump’s spat with the parents of a US soldier killed in Iraq – the father spoke at the Democratic convention – continues to make trouble for the candidate.
The survey of 500 likely voters was conducted August 1 through August 3. Matched up one-on-one, Clinton’s lead grows to 17 points, 51% to 34%.
Plus, Republican candidates have usually picked up a significant share of the Hispanic vote in Texas, meaning there is room for Trump to do worse than Romney among non-whites in the state.
At a certain level of national support, Trump’s over-performance with downscale whites would have tipped the map in his favor.
Clinton beats Trump 48% to 42% among likely Florida voters, according to the survey from Suffolk University. Finally, she not only commanded a huge lead – 53%-27% – in Wayne, Oakland and Macomb counties taken as a group, she also has a surprising lead in west MI – 45%-33% – despite its being considered a Republican bastion.
Obama has managed to attain the same level of popularity that Ronald Reagan or Bill Clinton had when they were less than six months from the end of their second term in office.
Voters are evenly divided on which candidate is more honest and trustworthy and which candidate can fix the country’s economic problems.
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Most likely Florida voters reported having negative views of the 2016 race.
