Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump trailed Democratic rival Hillary Clinton by 12 percentage points in a Reuters/Ipsos poll released on Friday, making him the clear underdog ahead of next week’s Republican National Convention.
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New polls from swing states released this week by Quinnipiac University showed Trump leading Clinton 42 percent to 39 percent in Florida.
Given their current choices, however, seven in 10 young adults say they would like for a third-party candidate to run, according to the GenForward survey, while just three in 10 say they are satisfied with the choice of Clinton or Trump.
To give you an idea of how important Pennsylvania is, if Trump carries all of the states Mitt Romney won in 2012, plus Ohio, Florida and Pennsylvania – he will win 273 electoral votes and the presidency.
Clinton has battled the notion during her campaign that she is dishonest and purposely set up the private email server because she wanted to hide her public and private exchanges from public scrutiny and skirt disclosure laws. The new poll, which Los Angeles Times reporter David Lauter says will be updated daily, has Trump up 43% to 40%.
Many more voters said they believe Clinton is better prepared to be president – 50 percent, compared to 30 percent for Trump.
This is really good news for Clinton. Eighty percent of Trump supporters and three-quarters of Clinton backers say a major reason for their support is opposition to the other candidate. If she wins that group, Clinton would be the first Democrat to carry white college graduates since polls began asking such demographic questions in the early 1950s.
Then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton checks her mobile phone after her address to the Security Council at United Nations headquarters. In North Carolina, Clinton gets 2 percent, Trump gets 36 percent, Johnson 7 percent and Stein 2 percent. In Colorado, she’s less popular with 34 percent favorable, 62 percent unfavorable.
Twenty-three percent of voters are undecided in that race, the victor of which will take on likely Democratic nominee Chris Koster in November.
All the state polls from Marist were conducted between July 5 and 11, and had margins of error of between 3.3 and 3.5 percent.
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Despite the general unpopularity, hypothetical head to head match-ups between the two candidates have recently seen Trump expanding his lead over Clinton, Press TV reported.
