Hillary Clinton leads Donald Trump in the 2016 presidential race, two new polls of registered voters show – but they differ on the size of her advantage.
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Reading from a teleprompter, Trump said Clinton was the “most corrupt” person ever to run for the White House and that she had “perfected the art of politics of personal theft”.
The surveys come after a hard month for the combative Mr Trump, a political novice who fired his campaign manager and faced criticism for poor campaign organisation and a paltry war chest of $US1.3 million ($1.7 million) at the end of May.
Paulson’s support comes days after Brent Scowcroft, a top national security adviser to Republican presidents dating back to Gerald Ford, similarly backed Clinton, and Robert Kagan, a prominent Republican neoconservative, is headlining a fundraiser for Clinton, Foreign Policy reported on Thursday.
The new ABC News/Washington Post poll showed Hillary Clinton breaking the 50% threshold, which could be the first sign that a crushing defeat may be looming for Republicans in November.
Henry Paulson, a Republican who was U.S. Treasury secretary during the 2008 financial meltdown, on Friday called a Donald Trump presidency “unthinkable” and said he will vote for Democrat Hillary Clinton. John McCain (R-AZ) by six points in a Wall Street Journal/NBC News polls in June 2008, and led Mitt Romney by three points in the same polls in June 2012.
Even among the Republicans, 41 per cent think Trump’s remarks are “unfairly biased”, while 53 per cent said they are “not unfairly biased”.
The sort-of-but-not-really silver lining for Trump?
A new poll indicates ME residents aren’t too enthusiastic about either leading presidential candidate. As many as 18 percent of respondents who think Trump is racist or has bias against minorities will still vote for him anyway, as will 11 percent of those who believe he is unqualified to lead the country.
According to those polled, there was “sweeping unease” with Trump.
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The Wall Street Journal-NBC News poll said that in a four-way race that included Libertarian candidate Gary Johnson and Green Party candidate Jill Stein, Clinton’s lead slips to a single point, 39-38 over Trump, with Johnson at 10 percent and Stein at 6 percent.
