In Arizona, Republican nominee for president Donald J. Trump leads Democrat Hillary Rodham Clinton with 44 percent of the electorate to the former first lady’s 40 percent, while Libertarian Gary Johnson is at 8 percent and Green Party nominee Dr. Jill Stein is at one percent, according to the Breitbart News Network and Gravis Marketing poll of 1,244 likely Arizona voters conducted August 27.
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The poll, which was conducted last Saturday, comes before Trump’s immigration speech in Phoenix on Wednesday evening-and before his visit with the president of Mexico on Wednesday earlier in the day.
So suggests a new Washington Post-ABC News poll, which finds that 41 percent of the country views Clinton favorably, while 56 percent sees her unfavorably – the highest such percentage in her decades-long career in national politics.
Two new polls paint slightly different pictures of the Wisconsin electorate two months away from the November election – though both show leads for the Democratic candidates in the presidential and U.S. Senate races.
Monmouth’s survey included 404 likely Wisconsin voters.
The Marquette Law poll included 650 likely voters.
The two polls diverged more starkly in their measures of the race between Republican Sen.
Adding in third party candidates, Libertarian Gary Johnson and Green Party nominee Jill Stein, Clinton continued to lead with 37 percent support among respondents, while Trump polled at 32 percent, Johnson and 11 percent, and Stein at seven percent. Ten percent of independents support Johnson and 6 percent support Stein.
Hillary Clinton has never been so disliked by Americans. This almost matches his highest unfavorability rating of 71 percent from May 2015, shortly before he announced his candidacy.
The most intuitive explanation for Clinton’s declining popularity is that all the recent headlines about emails and foundation donors have affirmed voters’ widespread suspicion that Clinton is “untrustworthy”.
It’s not clear what is driving the change in Americans’ view of Clinton.
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Among the likely voters, who think the economy is doing “great”, Clinton was the choice of 55.6 percent and Trump 34.6 percent. Among those who say they’re living comfortably, Trump is up 43 percent to Clinton’s 38 percent.
