In a four-way race, Trump led with 44 percent of the vote to 38 percent for Clinton, 6 percent for Libertarian Party candidate Gary Johnson and 2 percent for Jill Stein of the Green Party.
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A report on Tuesday in Washington said majority of U.S. youths had rejected Republican presidential candidate, Donald Trump’s strategy of wooing young supporters of Bernie Sanders, former Democratic presidential candidate.
An NBC News/SurveyMonkey Weekly Election Tracking poll released Tuesday found that Clinton leads Trump nationally by 9 percentage points – 50 percent to 41 percent.
Speaking at a voter registration event in Philadelphia Tuesday, Clinton said the stakes “could not be higher” in the race against Republican Donald Trump, and she warned against complacency in the remaining months before Election Day. For comparison purposes, Republican Mitt Romney won the state of Texas in 2012 by 16 points over President Barack Obama.
While polls have shown Clinton building a lead following the Philadelphia convention, Democrats are fearful that a depressed voter turnout might diminish support among the minority, young and female voters who powered Obama to two victories.
Despite those poll numbers in the head-to-head matchup, the former secretary of state continues to display her own vulnerabilities as a candidate.
“The gender split among white voters in Florida is huge”, said Patrick Murray, director of the Monmouth polling institute in West Long Branch. That’s only slightly better than Trump fared in the poll: 33% of voters there said they have a favorable impression of the GOP nominee, while 54% said they view him unfavorably. Prior to the Monmouth poll being released, Clinton’s advantage in the Real Clear Politics average was just 3.6 percentage points.
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The poll consisted of 944 likely voters and was conducted from August 12th to 14th.
