At least half of voters trust Hillary Clinton to do a better job solving health issues than Donald Trump, according to a Kaiser Family Foundation poll.
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Mr. Trump, as in other recent state and national polls, is doing poorly with non-white voters, who support Ms. Clinton 70 percent to 25 percent.
Trump, of course, has always been the more unpopular of the two presidential nominees, and he remains so; 35 per cent of Americans have a favourable impression of him, compared to 63 per cent unfavourable.
The survey of likely voters, including 483 Clinton supporters and 409 Trump voters, has margins of error of +/-4.5 percentage points and 4.9 points for the partisan subsamples.
Clinton has also lost ground among polled moderates, with 41-56 percent favorable-unfavorable, compared to a 50-48 percent balance previously, as well as among liberals where her favorability rating plummeted from 76 percent to 63 percent.
Still, Clinton has come out ahead in virtually every poll since the end of July, with just two national polls listed on RealClearPolitics showing Trump ahead in either a head-to-head or a four-way matchup.
Both she and Trump are galvanizing support from about 75 percent of their parties’ registered voters.
Clinton leads in four regions of the state, F&M said, including southwest Pennsylvania (39/36 percent), Philadelphia (83/12 percent), Allegheny County (56/30 percent), and the southeast (45/31 percent). When it comes to Medicare’s future, 53 percent of voters chose Clinton while only 38 percent chose Trump.
Donald Trump on Wednesday said he would deport “criminal illegal immigrants” in the US, and that anyone else here illegally could also be subject to deportation.
The hope within Clinton’s inner circle is that their talk of putting the states in plan will force the Trump campaign to consume valuable time and money it could be devoting in more solidly swing states like Ohio, North Carolina and Florida.
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The poll of 1,020 adults was conducted August 24-28 with a margin of error of 3.5 percentage points.
