The former secretary of state was viewed negatively by 59 per cent of voters and her Republican rival Trump by 64 per cent, according to the NBC News and the Survey Monkey Weekly Election Tracking Poll issued on August 16. Libertarian candidate Johnson got 10 percent while Green Party candidate Stein got 2 percent.
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Ms. Clinton held an 11-point lead over Mr. Trump among likely voters in a poll released by Franklin and Marshall on August 4, the week after she accepted the Democratic nomination at her party’s convention in Philadelphia.
Trump started to chip away at Clinton’s big lead in Pennsylvania, cutting her advantage from 11 points after the Democratic National Convention to 7 points in a Franklin and Marshall College poll published Thursday.
On the basic pocketbook question, the poll found that 36 percent of voters feared their own access to affordable care would get worse if Republican Donald Trump is elected, versus 24 percent who anxious their own situations would worsen under Clinton.
Clinton had a 5 percentage point lead over Trump (43 percent to 38 percent) in the Monmouth University poll of Wisconsin voters.
Trump’s one-point lead is an indication of how close the race is, according to the survey of 1,000 Likely Voters which was conducted August 29-30. And if Clinton is within striking distance in Arizona, Trump already has a narrow path to the 270 electoral votes needed to win.
Independents go for Trump (38 percent) over Clinton (26 percent) and Johnson (20 percent), with Stein trailing (7 percent).
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump and Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton campaigning in West Virginia.
Those ratings are Clinton’s worst in the quarter century she has spent in public positions, though still ahead of Trump’s 35-63 split.
Things can change quickly, especially in a race like this where people have strong negative feelings about both candidates. “Some of Trump’s supporters will be frustrated if he eases his promise of mass deportations, but they won’t find a more aggressive anti-immigration candidate elsewhere, so they’ll likely stick with him”.
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Her favorable rating among women dropped from 54 percent to just 45 percent. A whopping 66 polls show Clinton on top. That puts Trump at odds with most Republicans, who see Medicare negotiations as nothing more than the government dictating prices.
