Lee M. Miringoff, director of The Marist College Institute for Public Opinion, said in comments released with Friday’s poll numbers that Trump is “playing catchup” against Clinton in Florida, Colorado, North Carolina and Virginia.
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In North Carolina, Clinton leads Trump, 44% to 38%.
With Republican Donald Trump and Democrat Hillary Clinton heading into their party conventions, polls this week gave conflicting pictures about the presidential race in Florida.
As such her Republican rival, Donald Trump has “a fairly steep hill to climb” in numerous key states, the Wall Street Journal said after the poll results were released. The conventional wisdom is that Clinton is ahead, so when Quinnipiac challenges our assumptions, it’s perceived as wildly important, while polls that show Clinton with comfortable leads in Colorado, Florida, North Carolina, and Virginia seem routine. Fifty-seven percent have an unfavorable view of Clinton, compared to 37 percent who have a favorable view.
In addition, 36 percent think Clinton used bad judgment but did not do anything illegal.
Still, for Clinton, there was some good news in the poll: almost two-thirds of Americans think she will win the election. Johnson performs best in this state – he garners 12% support when included in the poll, which shrinks Clinton and Trump’s support to 39% and 33%, respectively.
Fifty-six percent of Americans said they would feel afraid and 48 percent say they would feel regret if Trump becomes president – in contrast to just 22 percent saying that a Trump win would make them proud and 26 percent excited.
The end result will likely be a jump in the 2016 presidential polls for Hillary Clinton, and a period of just a few months for Donald Trump to figure out how to right his ship and cut into Clinton’s lead. She made a strong case by pointing out that Clinton’s only going to continue President Barack Obama’s “pro-LGBT, pro-Islam and pro-abortion” legacy.
The Rasmussen survey shows Trump with the largest lead in the general election matchup against Clinton since October.
Trump is poised to receive the Republican nomination next week at the party’s convention in Cleveland.
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The poll found that 46 percent of voters said Clinton best represents their views on health care, while 32 percent said Trump represents their views; 15 percent said neither. In Colorado, she’s less popular with 34 percent favorable, 62 percent unfavorable. It has a margin of error of plus or minus 4.6 percentage points.
