ANews-Wall Street Journal/Marist survey shows Clinton leading Trump, 44 percent to 37 percent.
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When the presidential contest expands to four candidates – including Libertarian nominee Gary Johnson and the Green Party’s Jill Stein – the Clinton-vs.
Clinton’s and Trump’s standings declined amid questions about her email practices as secretary of state and his comments about minority groups and whether he seemed presidential in the aftermath of the Orlando massacre and the British vote to leave the European Union.
“For the demographics that we’re looking to motivate in this election, I think it’s going to be really important to have especially a person of color as her running mate”, Magnus said.
Although Clinton held a seven-point lead over Trump in Virginia, 58 percent of voters said they had an unfavorable impression of her.
The Florida survey was one of four battleground states conducted by NBC News/WSJ – Clinton leads in all four of them. Their candidate has successfully moved Clinton to the left on the minimum wage issue and has her calling for free tuition to in-state colleges.
Clinton and Trump both remain deeply unpopular in these states, however, with voters holding slightly more unfavorable views of the billionaire businessman.
Clinton is leading in Colorado, which Obama also carried twice, by eight points, 43 percent to 35 percent, while 21 percent said neither, other, or undecided.
More than half of Americans think the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee broke the law by using a private email account and server at the State Department and almost 4 in 10 think she did so intentionally, according to the poll.
Its release comes as Virginia party delegates head to national conventions.
Nearly two-thirds of all respondents – 66 percent – said their view of Clinton was either unfavorable or extremely unfavorable. This week, only 41% of Sanders voters said they would vote for Clinton, a drop of 12 points.
Annette Magnus, executive director of Battle Born Progress, a progressive advocacy group in Nevada, said she did not think Kaine would be the best choice. On Friday, she tweeted out a photo of them standing side-by-side and said: “Thank you, Virginia and Senator @TimKaine”.
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And in Virginia, it’s Clinton 41 percent, Trump 34 percent, Johnson 10 percent and Stein 2 percent.
