Worth noting is that Trump has an edge among independent voters, often the key swing constituency, in all four of these states.
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Though not the first Nevada poll to show a Trump lead, it’s the greatest lead for the businessman to date.
“If she stays true to herself, if she relies on her decades of experience, and she relies on her expertise as first lady, US senator, secretary of state, two-time presidential candidate, I think she’s going to do just fine”, he said.
Clinton has a big edge over Trump on who would do a better job handling the US image overseas, 47 percent to 27 percent.
In the poll, 37 percent of those surveyed were identified as Democrat, 32 percent as Republican and 31 percent as independent.
Voters are also slightly more likely to trust Trump than Clinton on handling gun laws, 39 per cent to 35 per cent.
The candidates still have time to change that, and Americans hope they do. The margin of error was 3.9 percentage points. It has a margin of error of plus or minus 6.3 percent.
In the end it will be up to Mr Holt to decide how vigorously he holds the candidates to a standard of truth.
Despite her big lead in a fast-growing part of the electorate, there are some warning signs for Clinton, who has faced criticism from some in the Latino community for failing to do more to mobilize its voters. Another 32 percent said moderators should leave it to the participants to correct each other.
And videos where she appears angry at supporters and voters for her not doing better in the polls won’t help.
In a two-way matchup, Clinton leads Trump by 7 points, 48% to 41%.
Voters in the Roanoke College poll viewed the economy as the most important issue.
There are gender gaps and huge racial gaps, the independent Quinnipiac University Poll finds.
A Florida poll was released Thursday showing Trump keeping his slim lead in the Sunshine State. A much lower 45 percent of likely Republican voters believe the same about Clinton.
CBS News reports tax documents show his foundation sent $158,000 to a man who sued him for withholding $1 million in prize money after the man scored a hole-in-one at Trump’s golf course in 2010.
Republican nominee Trump has hardly endeared himself to the Hispanic community, promising to build an “impenetrable” wall between the USA and Mexico and taking a hard line on immigration.
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The AP-GfK Poll of 1,694 adults, including 1,476 registered voters, was conducted online September 15-19, using a sample drawn from GfK’s probability-based KnowledgePanel, which is created to be representative of the USA population. Marco Rubio with a 9-point lead (43 percent-34 percent) in his re-election race against Democratic Rep. Patrick Murphy.
