But if the election were held today, 78% of white evangelical registered voters say they would vote for Trump, including about a third who “strongly” back his campaign.
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Hillary Clinton’s big lead over Donald Trump evaporated in a major poll released Thursday. Their last poll was taken in March however.
Clinton’s decline in polling could be due in part to 67 percent of voters not finding her honest or trustworthy, a five percent increase from last month. Just 28% said she was honest. Clinton’s ratings on honesty were more positive soon after she announced her presidential bid in April of previous year.
Sides also said she believes voter fraud in several states was overlooked because of Clinton’s influence.
However, that number has remained constant since last month despite an onslaught of criticism from the Clinton campaign over his claims about his business record.
There are partisan differences. Very few Democrats said she had actually broken the law.
Voters are divided on whether the FBI investigation into the email matter was fair. Forty-eight percent expressed at least some confidence that the probe had been independent and impartial, while 47 percent – including most Republicans and a slim majority of independents – had little or no confidence that it was.
“Heading into the two parties’ conventions, the race for President is a dead heat”, CBS News reported.
While the 2016 race is now neck and neck, each candidate continues to perform well with their party’s key voters.
A national poll by Marist College for the McClatchy newspapers, for example, showed Trump with 39% versus 42% for Clinton. The poll was conducted after the Federal Bureau of Investigation recommended she not face criminal charges for her use of a private email account and servers as secretary of state. Sixty-three percent have a negative view of Trump, compared to the 31 percent who think well of him. Just 22 percent said they’d be proud and 26 percent excited should America pick Trump on Election Day.
Trump has improved his standing with voters on handling some important issues.
Evangelical support for Trump over Clinton isn’t limited to the socially conservative issues of abortion and marriage. Forty-six percent believe the move was illegal, up from 41 percent last month. Clinton’s support had dropped eight points since then.
Women are more likely than men to have a favorable opinion of Clinton, 40 percent to 33 percent. Elizabeth Warren in OH, a state where Clinton and Donald Trump are running neck-and-neck.
“I really don’t love either of the candidates”.
The campaigns are expected to kick into high gear after their conventions and voters are not especially excited about that.
Eighty-one percent of Americans say they would feel afraid following the election of one of the two polarizing politicians, according to a new Associated Press-GfK poll. What do they say? During his 30-minute speech at the rally, Sanders made an appeal to his supporters, some of whom have expressly refused to vote for Clinton in the past under any circumstances, to rally behind the former Secretary of State in the presidential race.
The nationwide poll surveyed 1,358 registered voters from July 8 to 12 using cellphones and landlines.
The poll employed a random digit dial methodology. For the cell sample, interviews were conducted with the person who answered the phone. The margin of error was 3.1 percentage points.
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