Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton appear to be neck-and-neck in the race to become the next president of the United States, as a CNN/ORC poll shows 45% of likely voters backing the Republican candidate against 43% for his Deomcrat rival. Libertarian nominee Gary Johnson, the former governor of New Mexico, gets 8 percent and Green Party candidate Jill Stein was chosen by 2 percent of the people surveyed.
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Undecided or Refused: 11 percent.
Florida women support Clinton 56-36 percent, while men back Trump by a margin of 58-36 percent.
Just as it was in Q-Poll’s August 9 survey. Both polls are the first to be conducted in SC independent of a political party since November 2015 and the Washington Post-Survey Monkey poll is the first poll independent of any politically-adjacent group.
In the South, Trump is leading in Arkansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, South Carolina and Tennessee. In North Carolina, she leads 42 to 38 percent for Trump. Trump is now ahead.
For more poll results, read here.
“So here’s a little bit of a reality check, sure this race is closer nationally than it was a month ago”, Todd said. Far fewer say the focus of U.S. immigration policy should be on deporting immigrants living in the United States illegally, just 11 percent rate that as a top priority. “Republicans are excited about the prospect of electing them to the White House”. 1, Trump’s recent outbursts and the unease they have caused among an important segment of the conservative electorate could bring states where Republicans had dominated for more than 30 years into play this time around.
Voters also seem to be put off by Trump’s tactics. The margin of error is plus or minus 4.4 points. Among non-white voters he trails Clinton by 49 points, getting just 22% to her 71%.
Among voters overall, Trump does slightly better than Clinton (40 per cent to 39 per cent) on the handling of veterans issues. On that, Clinton and Trump voters agree even though the candidates don’t, with 80 percent of Trump’s backers saying they would support such a bill and 94 percent of Clinton’s backers behind the idea.
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“62% of voters in the state think Trump needs to release his tax returns, to only 29% who don’t think it’s necessary for him to do so”.
