The poll found that 47 percent of likely New Hampshire voters support Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton, while 38 percent back her Republican rival Donald Trump.
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The NBC/Wall Street Journal poll shows 54 percent of voters have “major” concerns about comments from the Republican presidential nominee.
Another 10 percent intend to vote for Libertarian Gary Johnson, 1 percent support Green Party candidate Jill Stein and 3 percent are undecided.
Despite Clinton’s lead in the NBC/WSJ poll, Trump’s advantage is that many voters still want change.
“Despite arguably the worst few weeks of her candidacy, the fundamentals still point toward a Hillary Clinton victory”, said Democratic pollster Fred Yang of Hart Research Associates, who conducted the survey with Republican pollster Bill McInturff of Public Opinion Strategies. Trump continues to underperform Mitt Romney’s numbers with men, as he barely leads Clinton 46%-44%, and with white voters (49%-41%).
“In this election, when the attention is on one of the candidates, it has not been good for that candidate”, Murray said.
And 48 percent of voters agree with Trump’s statement that America is losing ground and the economy hasn’t improved enough. Both candidates had very high negatives among voters.
But Trump holds the edge on being honest and straightforward (41 percent say Trump is better here, versus 31 percent who say Clinton is).
That’s not as strong a result as Trump has been seeing in some recent polls but it is an improvement over last month.
But Monmouth’s findings pointed to a much wider lead for the former secretary of state than a NBC News/Wall Street Journal/Marist poll conducted there earlier this month, which showed Clinton and Trump virtually deadlocked in the Granite State.
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The poll was conducted September 16-19 for NBC News/Wall Street Journal by Democratic pollster Fred Yang of Hart Research Associates, and Republican pollster Bill McInturff of Public Opinion Strategies.
