Clinton has the support of 50 percent of voters and Trump is backed by 41 percent, which closely mirrors last week’s result in the same survey conducted by the NBC News and the Survey Monkey Weekly Election Tracking Poll. She has stronger support from her party – 92 percent of self-identified Democrats choose Clinton while Florida Republicans are less excited about their party’s nominee. “Trump’s lead is based entirely on his holding a 63-33 advantage among seniors”. Clinton leads Trump among independents by 47 percent to 30 percent, with 11 percent supporting Johnson and 2 percent backing Stein.
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Clinton has an overwhelming lead among Hispanic, black and Asian voters who make up about one-third of the electorate, garnering 69 percent of this group’s vote to 19 percent for Trump.
Digging into the numbers, Trump leads Clinton among white voters, but by a margin not almost as large as Romney four years ago.
For months, GOP leaders with reservations about Trump have anticipated he would moderate his brash attitude and offensive statements for the general election. She was also 8 points ahead with likely voters, 51%-43%.
At this point in 2012, President Barack Obama was ahead of Republican nominee Mitt Romney by almost the same margin, favoured by 46 per cent of likely voters to Romney’s 41 per cent, with about 13 per cent picking neither candidate.
In 2012, Romney had an 89-point lead against Obama among Republican voters. This difference is due mainly to a widening gender gap.
Speaking just 40 miles outside of Milwaukee, the city rocked by a wave of violent protests after a police shooting of an armed African-American man that reignited racial tensions, the Republican presidential nominee weaved his pledge to restore “law and order” and bring back jobs with an unrelenting barrage of attacks that painted Democratic policies as the engineers of poverty and crime in inner cities.
Another almost 24 percent of likely voters chose neither of the major party’s nominees.
Still, Clinton remains unpopular in deep-red Texas, with only a 36 percent favorability rating.
Clinton has a slight edge when it comes to who will better handle key issue areas.
Trump also sought to galvanize the African-American community into supporting him by touting his hardline stance on illegal immigration and arguing that Clinton’s policies to give some undocumented immigrants legal status in the USA would take away jobs from low-income African-Americans. Rubio now holds a small 48 percent to 43 percent edge over Patrick Murphy, with 3 percent saying they will support another candidate.
Democratic vice presidential nominee Tim Kaine is accusing Republican Donald Trump of maligning military families, who hold sway in several states pivotal to the presidential election. Ted Cruz of Texas and Ohio Gov. John Kasich.
Despite Democrats’ relentless criticism of Rubio’s position on Trump, so far it isn’t causing him significant damage with voters.
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The Monmouth University telephone poll, conducted August 12-15, included 402 Florida residents likely to vote and had a 4.9-point margin of error.
