Republican U.S. Presidential nominee Donald Trump attends a campaign event at Briar Woods High School in Ashburn, Virginia, U.S., August 2, 2016.
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Corrections and clarifications: An earlier version of the following story misstated Donald Trump’s poll number in July in the McClatchy-Marist poll.
Last month, Clinton held a narrow 3-point advantage, 42%-39% in a McClatchy-Marist poll. Clinton now leads Trump by 6.8 per cent according to a running average of national polls.
In the previous NBC News/The Wall Street Journal poll, Ms. Clinton had an advantage of five percentage points over Mr. Trump.
“I was pointing out in both of those instances, that Director Comey had said that my answers in my Federal Bureau of Investigation interview were truthful”. Click the link for additional poll data.
The key reason: “This is a race about who you can trust”, said Charles Franklin, the director of the Marquette University Law School Poll, which surveys Wisconsin voters.
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. And a majority of Trump’s backers said they see their decision as a vote against Clinton rather than a vote for the NY businessman.
This is a net gain of four points for Clinton, but she still received only a small bump after he Democratic convention, while Trump lost three points after the Republican convention.
Those who were polled also said they believed Clinton, rather than Trump, has the experience to be president and is better prepared to handle foreign policy issues. “If you’re in a world where it’s over 10, then this is a landslide of historic proportions”, said Professor Goldstein.
“Given the fact that his assault on Hispanics has made it far more hard to win numerous other swing states-like Colorado, Nevada, and Florida-then Pennsylvania becomes ever more critical for Trump to put the pieces together to get to 270 electoral votes”, said Whit Ayres, a leading Republican pollster.
“We feel like in another week or so, the polls are going to even out”, Manafort told USA media.
“Voters are more comfortable voting for people they like, so this is not good news for either candidate”, says Republican pollster Daron Shaw, who conducts the Fox News Poll along with Democratic pollster Chris Anderson. “Polls go up, polls go down, and right now Hillary Clinton’s got an incredible convention bounce but some of that will fade quickly”.
Incumbent Sen. Kelly Ayotte (R) of New Hampshire is trailing her Democratic opponent, Gov. Maggie Hassan, by 10 points. That would help her tie up resources for Trump in states such as Arizona and Georgia, which have been reliably Republican but are showing signs of Democratic life this time around. Clinton had the support of 48% of those surveyed, and Trump had 33%. Trump has 7 percent of the Philly vote, half of which is African American.
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The state could lose its allure and its ability to attract the top-tier candidates if the trend in the polls that we have seen in the last week continues and the gap between Clinton and Trump remains stable or grows larger. Bernie Sanders (I) of Vermont are coming around, with 90 percent saying they will back Clinton in November. She led Trump 81 percent to 5 percent among Democrats and 52 percent to 21 percent among independents. Clinton’s continued rightward shift could push more voters out of her camp, but she clearly feels she’ll win even more Republicans looking for a business-friendly candidate and a military hawk.
