The poll shows that Trump is buoyed by white men.
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Clinton is also at a deficit when it comes to fixing the economy (37% for Clinton to 45% for Trump), bringing change to Washington (24%-51%) and showing independence from “big donors” (18%-48%).
When the Los Angeles Times first revealed the poll results earlier this week, the newspaper seemed to question the legitimacy of Trump’s numbers by saying it was an “apparent” slim lead and noted that the numbers were outliers compared to the results of other mainstream media polling. It said 64 percent view Trump unfavorably, with 54 percent looking negatively at Clinton.
Fifty-five percent of all voters say her use of a private email server is important to their vote – up from 42 percent who said this in late October 2015 after her testimony before the House Benghazi Committee.
The reasons for Clinton’s slump were not entirely clear, but could be related to the racial unrest following the Dallas sniper slayings of five police officers, which may benefit the self-proclaimed “law and order” campaign of Donald Trump. Ted Cruz, the billionaire is ahead by one point.
Trump receives 40 percent of the vote to Clinton’s 39 percent with a margin of error of 4.8 percent.
The effort is reminiscent of a strategy employed by President Obama in 2008 that helped build his successful coalition, which included a larger turnout of minority and young voters than in previous cycles.
These surveys were conducted before it was confirmed that Donald Trump’s vice presidential pick would be Indiana Governor Mike Pence, but a follow-up survey was conducted in the eleven battlegrounds following the announcement of the pick.
Today’s new NBC News poll, released this morning, shows that Trump has more work to do.
Also on Friday, NBC News in collaboration with The Wall Street Journal and Marist College released a new set of swing state polls showing Clinton holding clear leads of between six and nine points in four key states – Florida, Colorado, North Carolina and Virginia – in head to head competition against Donald Trump.
In it Clinton receives 46 percent to Trump’s 41 percent. However, with support ranging between 3% and 5% for Libertarian Gary Johnson and between 2% and 3% for likely Green Party nominee Jill Stein, both remain well short of the 15% threshold required to participate in the presidential debates.
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The poll of 300 Latino registered voters was conducted July 9-13 and has a margin of error of +/- 5.66 percent. “As Bernie Sanders said, ‘Her judgment is so bad.’ She’s got bad judgment”. Just under half say Ginsburg was wrong to criticize Trump, while roughly the same share say it was inappropriate for Trump to call for her resignation in response.
