OH voters are also basically evenly divided between Trump and Clinton in a one-on-one matchup, 46 percent-45 percent, but when third-party candidates are added, Trump has a 4-point lead 41 percent to 37 percent.
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The GWU poll surveyed 1,000 registered likely voters nationwide from August 28 to September 1. Libertarian Party nominee Gary Johnson claimed only about 4 percent in the poll, though the most recent CNN/ORC national poll has his support pegged at 7 percent. Trump led Clinton with voters over 51, while the poll found support for evenly split between the candidates for voters aged 36-50.
Voters see Clinton as better able to handle the public scrutiny that comes with being president, with 52% of registered voters saying she’d be better on that point as opposed to the 43% who think Trump would.
Meanwhile, in North Carolina, where Mitt Romney won in 2012, Clinton gets 47 percent to 43 percent for Trump. Trump’s lead among white voters ranges from 8 to 30 percentage points, while Clinton takes non-white voters by margins of 42 to 71 percentage points.
Last week, a Fox News Poll showed Trump trailing Clinton by just 2 points in a four-way race. It has a margin of error of plus or minus 3.1 percentage points.
Trump has his own fundraising totals, but even if his campaign raised as much as Clinton, they have miles more to go to build up to her s in a short period of time.
The CNN/ORC poll was conducted from Sept 1 to Sept 4 by telephone among a random sample of 1,001 adults.
Expectations for Clinton are highest among her own supporters, 91% of whom expect her to do a better job than Trump.
Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump are locked in tight battles in four key battleground states, according to polling from Quinnipiac University released today.
Trump was favored by 65 percent of men in the survey.
The day before in swing state Ohio, Trump softened his stance on immigration while Clinton blasted Russian Federation for suspected tampering in the US electoral process.
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In addition to leading Trump in MA, the former secretary of state almost doubled her GOP rival in expected electoral votes, winning 244 of the 270 needed to clinch the White House, compared to Trump’s his 126, according to the survey released Tuesday.
