Donald TrumpDonald TrumpComplaint filed against Trump Foundation with Florida AG In shift, Trump is critical of police officer Trump on birther announcement: “I wanted to get on with the campaign” MORE has a narrow lead over Hillary ClintonHillary Rodham ClintonIn shift, Trump is critical of police officer Trump on birther announcement: “I wanted to get on with the campaign” Bill Clinton defends his foundation MORE in Nevada, North Carolina and OH, according to a Fox News poll released Wednesday. Libertarian candidate Gary Johnson maintained his third position with 9 percent, and Green Party nominee Jill Stein trailed with 3 percent. Three percent remained undecided.
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In a two-way matchup, Clinton leads Trump by 7 points, 48% to 41%.
However, those advantages were eclipsed by Clinton’s leads among women and college-educated voters-both of which are a majority voting bloc in the state, both in the poll sample Wednesday and in past elections.
“Despite arguably the worst few weeks of her candidacy, the fundamentals still point toward a Hillary Clinton victory”, Democratic pollster Fred Yang, who conducted the poll with Republican Bill McInturff, told NBC News.
Surveys by Fox News and CBS/New York Times last week showed a spread between the two candidates within the polls’ margin of error. The margin of error is 3.1 percentage points.
After five years of questioning the veracity of President Barack Obama’s place of birth, Donald Trump is now revealing why he finally acknowledged the U.S. commander-in-chief was indeed born in the United States.
Eighty percent of voters said the development had no effect of their vote. Meanwhile, 15 percent said it made them less likely to support Trump, and 3 percent said it made them more likely to support the GOP nominee.
What’s more, 68 percent of Clinton voters respond that they will “definitely” vote for her, compared with 66 percent of Trump supporters who say that about the NY businessman.
The poll was conducted after a tough stretch in which Clinton was sidelined with pneumonia and came under fire for referring to Trump supporters as “deplorables”. Consequentially, Clinton saw her poll numbers slide. Trump maintained higher levels of backing from the demographic, garnering 46 percent support to Clinton’s 44 percent, but the difference is much narrower than in earlier polls.
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“In this election, when the attention is on one of the candidates, it has not been good for that candidate”, Murray said.
