Tuesday’s NBC News/SurveyMonkey poll finds Hillary Clinton still leading Donald Trump nationally by nine points, but Clinton may face problems in the near future as House Republicans received Federal Bureau of Investigation documents today regarding her email scandal.
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The number of likely voters who picked neither Clinton nor Trump in the poll was almost 24 per cent.
In a four-way matchup including Libertarian nominee Gary Johnson and the Green Party’s leader Jill Stein, Clinton leads Trump by 6 percent, while Johnson is supported by 11 percent of respondents and Stein by 4 percent.
Clinton’s lead is helped by her support from Hispanic, black and Asian voters – 69% of minority likely voters supported the Democratic nominee, compared with just 19% who supported Trump.
Trump had a significant lead with white voters in Florida, 51%-37%. Trump leads big among white men, 64% to 24%, while Clinton holds a 10-point edge among white women, 49% to 39%.
Meanwhile in the Senate race, Sen.
Even as polls show Clinton in the lead, the former secretary of state has faced lingering questions about her trustworthiness in the fallout of her use of a private email server as secretary of state and over her family’s sprawling foundation.
A Washington Post poll out Tuesday morning found that Clinton was 14 points ahead of Trump with registered voters in the state, 52%-38%.
Clinton said that the Olympics are an example of American achievement, arguing that Trump is offering a pessimistic view of the country.
Worth noting: Clinton’s running mate is Virginia Sen.
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The Aug. 11-15 polls surveyed a sample of 1,132 and 1,131 likely voters, respectively, and had a credibility interval of 3 percentage points. The Washington Post poll, conducted August 11-14 by telephone, included 888 registered voters with a 4-point margin of error and 707 likely voters with a 4.5-point margin of error.
