The attempts to sow doubts about the 2016 election results coincided with Trump’s slide in opinion polls against Democratic Party candidate Hillary Clinton and missteps in his campaign.
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Diving deeper into the numbers, PPP found that Trump’s lead is based primarily with his support from seniors who prefer him 63-33 percent over Clinton. While the GOP business mogul has vowed to project strength and decisive action against terror, the former secretary of state has pointed to her deep foreign policy credentials and warned that Trump could plunge the nation into another war.
The number of likely voters who picked neither Clinton nor Trump in the poll was almost 24 per cent.
The latest ABC News/ Washington Post national poll shows that Trump beats Clinton among white voters, yet, Clinton boasts strong support among nonwhites, a growing share of the USA population.
Donald Trump on Tuesday accused rival Hillary Clinton of being “against the police” and claimed that she and other Democrats pander to African-American voters.
In the Quinnipiac poll, her lead in Pennsylvania, a pivotal battleground, narrows from 10 percent to 9 percent when third-party candidates are included. In the RealClearPolitics poll of average, Clinton is leading Trump by 6.7 per cent.
For Clinton, who continues to face scrutiny over her private email system after dodging a federal indictment, only 11 per cent called her honest and trustworthy.
And Trump is faring worse among the state’s white voters than Mitt Romney, who carried the group by 24 points in his 2012 race against Barack Obama. Previous surveys, including one commissioned by Democrats, have found Trump’s lead ranging from seven to 11 points.
Donald Trump has been slipping significantly in the polls after the Republican National Convention, with polls showing him behind in every swing state.
The poll was conducted among 15,179 adults between August 8 and 14.
The poll was conducted by phone Friday through Monday, sampling 402 Florida residents likely to vote in November.
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ABC NewsTrump’s margins are smaller among white women without a degree (13 points, 55-42 percent) and college-educated white men (7 points, 52-45 percent).
