Clinton still leads Trump 47 percent to 40 percent among likely voters, a 2-percentage-point slip in the lead she held in the Keystone State right after the July 25 to 28 Democratic convention. Her previous low favorable rating this year was in July, when it was 42 percent, lower than any mark in historical Post-ABC polls except a few points in the 1990s when a large share of the public had no opinion of her.
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The latest Pennsylvania poll is a reflection of what’s happening nationally: Hillary Clinton’s lead over Donald Trump is shrinking.
When the figures are examined to look at just Clinton versus Trump, her lead comes out at 48 to 42, a lead of six points that has fallen from the 10-point lead she was polling earlier last month.
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. The sampling error for the findings among 496 likely voters is 5.6 percentage points.Participants were selected to reflect voter registration characteristics reported by the Pennsylvania Department of State.
During the time the polls included in the average were conducted, both candidates have faced a wave of negative news stories.
In Pennsylvania’s Senate race, Democrat Katie McGinty has a five-point lead over Republican Sen. Hillary Clinton is moving closer to 50% support, while the Donald Trump campaign remains flat in a new poll. But 18 percent of respondents were undecided.While McGinty is building momentum among likely voters, she appears to be losing ground among registered voters.
Clinton has led Trump through most of the campaign for the November election, though neither candidate appears to have inspired America.
White registered voters are in favor of Trump over the Democratic candidate by 13 points. The more the voters get exposed to her lies and corruption, the less inclined they are to believe the argument that she’s the safe and sensible choice against the rogue charlatan Trump.
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More than one in four – 27 percent – of the registered voters had not decided on which candidate to support. For instance, one of the joint fundraising groups Clinton established with the national Democratic Party also raised money to help underwrite the party’s national convention.
