Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton arrives at a voter registration rally, August 16, 2016, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
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Hillary Clinton has a strong lead in Florida and Virginia, according to two new polls out Tuesday.
The poll found 79 percent of Florida Republicans support Trump and 12 percent support Clinton.
Of the alternative party candidates, Johnson came in third with 8 percentage points.
Trump says “we reject the bigotry” of the Clinton campaign, which he says talks down to minority groups and only sees African-Americans as votes.
The poll also found that more than 40 percent said Clinton has the personality and temperament to serve as president while only 17 percent said the same about Trump.
Clinton was leading among college-educated white voters – a group Republican nominee Mitt Romney won in 2012 by 10 points – with 53% to Trump’s 37%.
It is yet more grim polling news for Trump, who has endured a rough stretch of the campaign after accepting the Republican presidential nomination in Cleveland last month.
Rumors of an ailing Clinton have been circulating on sites like The Drudge Report for several weeks, but they began picking up steam when Fox News show host Sean Hannity began airing segments questioning the former secretary of state’s health.
Clinton is up by nine percentage points among likely Florida voters.
According to PPP, both candidates are deeply unpopular with both posting negative ratings of greater than 50 percent (Trump 53 percent negative; Clinton 59 percent negative). That’s only slightly better than Trump fared in the poll: 33% of voters there said they have a favorable impression of the GOP nominee, while 54% said they view him unfavorably.
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The Monmouth University telephone poll, conducted August 12-15, included 402 Florida residents likely to vote and had a 4.9-point margin of error.
