Latest US electoral 2016 poll results are in: Republican candidate Donald Trump and Democratic Party nominee Hillary Clinton are in a statistical tie.
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The RealClearPolitics polls average showed Clinton leading GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump by as many eight percentage points in mid-August, when the first-time candidate made a series of perceived campaign missteps that some political analysts predicted would be hard to overcome.
A poll conducted by Monmouth University showed Clinton leading Trump by 7 points at 49 to 42.
In a four-way ballot, Clinton still leads Trump by 7 points (42 percent to 35 percent), while Johnson is favored by 9 percent and Stein by 4 percent of voters. Overall, there has been a shift of 0.6 percent upward for Clinton and 2.5 percent down for Trump over the course of a full seven-day sample.
Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton addresses the National Convention of the American Legion in Cincinnati, Ohio, U.S., August 31, 2016.
Though Clinton has had a national lead in almost all recent polls, the RealClearPolitics average of polls shows how the race has tightened recently. Another 9 percent are undecided. Clinton’s trustworthiness has become a major issue with voters in the 2016 race, thanks in large part to the email setup that allowed her to use a private email account and, initially, skirt federal transparency laws.
Trump and Clinton have both lost supporters within their own party over the last week with voters switching parties.
That makes a much closer race than was evident in the previous Marquette poll in early August, which had Clinton up 10 points among registered voters and 15 among likely voters.
Seventy-year-old Trump is a real estate billionaire from NY and a realty television star who joined politics only about a year ago. Fifty-five percent were unhappy with Trump, while nearly an equal number, 54 percent, found disfavor with Hillary.
Biden, who dissatisfied Democrats unsuccessfully tried to draft into the presidential primary, is a key asset for Clinton in trying to woo working-class voters in the Rust Belt to back the former secretary of state over Trump. The hefty war chest means the Democratic White House hopeful has the resources to continue an expensive ad blitz against Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump, while also investing in an expansive field operation. Protesters gathered in front of the building where Trump appeared, and a coalition of labor leaders met nearby to denounce Trump’s outreach to black voters as disingenuous and insulting.
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The Fox News poll, released on Wednesday, showed that Trump reached within 2 percent of his Clinton. Local 5’s Kris Schuller spoke with voters about the poll and why they support candidates outside of the mainstream.
