The former secretary of state was viewed negatively by 59 per cent of voters and her Republican rival Trump by 64 per cent, according to the NBC News and the Survey Monkey Weekly Election Tracking Poll issued on August 16.
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Those averages put her advantage over Mr Trump at between three and six percentage points. Meanwhile, 62 percent of Clinton supporters say they are scared of Donald Trump being elected.
In a heat-to-head match-up, however, Clinton held a 6-point edge over Trump and led him 48 percent to 42 percent.
Like the other national polls, the Reuters/Ipsos poll also bared Clinton neck and neck with Trump. Despite Clinton’s impressive victory in terms of electoral votes, 270 to 168, the Republicans gained seats in the House of Representatives and only lost one seat in the US Senate.
CNN’s latest Poll of Polls finds Hillary Clinton’s lead over Donald Trump has been cut in half, with her post-convention bump wilting in the late-summer heat. A one-point lead is statistically insignificant in a survey with a +/- 3 percentage point of margin of error.
“Clinton is fuelled by strong support from the East and West Coast regions and by women across the nation”, said David Paleologos, director of the Suffolk University Political Research Centre in Boston. On Trump’s side, that included an overhaul of his campaign’s leadership, a slew of prominent Republicans announcing that they would not vote for the GOP nominee and a much-criticized effort to reach out to black voters while speaking to mostly white audiences.
With outside groups excluded, the Clinton campaign outspends Trump’s more than a 9 to 1, according to a new ABC News analysis of television advertising data from CMAG/Kantar Media.
This ranks them as the two most unpopular USA presidential nominees in more than 30 years.
Hillary Clinton’s campaign believes Arizona is a battleground state in the presidential race and has begun using its cash to running TV ads in the Grand Canyon State.
Trump’s favorability rating is underwater, with 74 percent of Latinos holding an unfavorable view of the candidate and 67 percent holding a “very unfavorable” view.
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Hillary Clinton smashed her own fundraising record by raising a whopping $143 million for the month of August, the campaign said Wednesday. Clinton got a substantial bounce this year that lasted for a full month. “It’s usually gone around Labor Day, and by then we’ll be where we should be, which is right around four to five points” for Mrs Clinton. The F&M poll shows Clinton over Trump, 41 to 38 percent, with Libertarian candidate Gary Johnson at 7 percent and Green Party candidate Jill Stein with 2 percent.
