On the eve of the USA presidential nominating conventions, three new surveys Sunday showed Democrat Hillary Clinton with a consistent advantage over Republican Donald Trump, even as American voters view both of them unfavorably.
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In that poll, Libertarian party candidate Gary Johnson picked up 13% of support in a matchup against Clinton, Trump, and Green Party candidate Jill Stein, slightly higher than in the NBC/WSJ poll and the WaPo/ABC poll.
Clinton’s favorability rating with Latinos is 64 percent positive, 25 percent negative. Almost 4-in-10 voters who say they are “not at all enthusiastic” about voting this year say they back either Johnson or Stein, but among those who are extremely enthusiastic, that figure falls to just 6%. In this poll, independent voters were more apt to back her in the two-way matchup than they were last June, but in a four-way contest, her support among independents is steady.
On Friday, the Reuters/Ipsos daily tracking poll showed Hillary Clinton leading by a 12.5 percentage point margin among likely voters, 45.3 to 32.8, with 14.5 percent saying they would vote for a different candidate and 7.4 percent either refusing to answer or claiming they planned not to vote at all.
His running mate largely unknown to the public, Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump is introducing Indiana Gov. Mike Pence, a steady conservative with governing experience inside and outside of Washington.
Clinton walks away with the win with 41 percent, Trump with 35 percent and then Johnson with 11 percent and Stein with 6 percent.
Donald Trump is already battered and stumbling into the Republican convention in Cleveland.
Trump is ahead among whites by 50% to 37%, as well as among men by 46% to 39%, according to the survey.
While 33 percent say she has the right judgment.
The ad paints Trump as “unpresidential and unfit for office, in the eyes of both children and, the ad assumes, their voting parents (who, one could argue, might not be too happy with the Clinton campaign’s rebroadcasting of the messages to children watching television)”, the NYT report said.
She bests Trump by a almost 3-1 margin (66 percent to 24 percent) among Latinos and maintains an even more staggering 91 percent to 7 percent cushion among blacks.
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.
This CBS News 2016 Battleground Tracker is a panel study based on 3383 interviews conducted on the internet of registered voters in eleven battleground states (Colorado, Florida, Iowa, Michigan, North Carolina, New Hampshire, Nevada, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and Wisconsin) and single state polls in Iowa, Michigan, and Ohio.All YouGov respondents in the battleground states were recontacted July 15-16, 2016 for a follow-up survey on the Vice Presidential announcement.
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The poll also comes after Clinton was spared prosecution by the government for her use of a private server as secretary of state.
