Just 27% of registered voters say Trump would be a great or good president; 15% say he would be average, while 12% say he would be poor and 43% say he would be bad.
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This means everything from coverage of possible conflicts of interest between the Clinton Foundation and Hillary Clinton’s government service to Clinton’s health. And 45 percent say she would be a “poor or terrible” president.
In a third competitive state, Iowa, Clinton led Trump, 47 percent to 44 percent, within the survey’s margin of error. “We’re going to make sure Donald Trump is comfortable about being in his own skin – that he doesn’t lose that authenticity that you simply can’t buy and a pollster can’t give you”. The people deserve to know where candidates stand on supporting Trump – and Democrats need to hold Republicans accountable for backing such a unsafe candidate for national office. For Clinton, 55% of people said she did not have those qualities, while just 38% said she did.
In a four-way race between Clinton, Trump, Gary Johnson and Jill Stein, both Pew Research and Rasmussen Reports found the former secretary of state wins out with 41 percent of voters supporting her and Trump garnering 37 and 39 percent, respectively. Trump’s unfavorable ratings are particularly high with young voters and minority voters; 60 percent of those between the ages of 18 and 34 said they have an unfavorable view of the Republican nominee, and 64 percent of minority voters said the same thing. On the flip side, more than 30% from the same cohort said no, they believed Clinton would take the country in a “different direction”. Her campaign said the two met backstage and chatted about the 2016 campaign, the Summer Olympics and their families. Then you get someone the least likely – the problem with the whole Breitbart crew is they have been so tough on Barack Obama that he will go from 1% of the black vote to 0% of the black vote.
When looking to the future, Trump backers generally are pessimistic: Sixty-eight percent say life for the next generation will be worse than it is today.
Yet Donald Trump’s rise to become the presidential nominee of the Republican Party – as well as his subsequent meltdown in the past few weeks – seems to be challenging the axiom of all politics being local.
Earlier this week, Donald Trump made a pitch to African-American voters in Milwaukee.
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Clinton says her plan would also grow the economy and create more jobs. Fifty-five percent of Republican and Republican-leaning voters said in 2014 that free trade agreements have been good for the USA; 51% said the same in the month before Trump launched his candidacy in 2015 and made attacks on existing free-trade deals a cornerstone of his campaign.
