When the race is expanded to four candidates, Clinton scores 50 percent while Trump trails in second with 25 percent.
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Independent voters also think Clinton will defeat Trump, with 51 percent choosing the former secretary of state and 19 percent picking the billionaire businessman.
‘While Clinton has 81 percent of Democrats in the head-to-head, and 75 percent in the four-way contest, Trump only garners the support of 55 and 52 percent of Republicans, ‘ pointed out Siena College’s pollster Steven Greenberg in a release.
The survey also polled NY voters on a crucial question of the 2016 election: Do we need to make America great again?
Polls have shown Clinton leading consistently in Florida, Ohio, New Hampshire, Virginia, North Carolina, and Pennsylvania – all of the most important swing states this election.
An unflattering New York Times piece over the weekend reported that Trump’s advisers are, with increasing frequency, conceding that the Republican candidate “may be beyond coaching”.
The most recent Gallup polling shows 39 percent of Americans view Clinton favorably, and 32 percent have a favorable opinion of Trump.
Clinton’s numbers are comparable to Barack Obama’s numbers in NY at the same point in the election.
But even with surveys indicating “soft” racism among millennials, America’s youth appears to be embracing the social democratic tones of Clinton’s onetime challenger for the Democratic nomination, Senator Bernie Sanders, rather than Trump’s nationalism – at least for now.
In April 2016, the business mogul stated that he was the only Republican candidate with a realistic chance of capturing the Empire State, concluding “I think we will win NY”. Trump has the support of just over half of New York Republicans, which may cause further damage for the Republican Party in the state during reelection.
The last time NY voted for a Republican candidate was 1984, when former President Ronald Reagan carried 49 states.
The business mogul has struggled to close the gap between him and Clinton since the party conventions in July.
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Trump is now trailing Clinton by 6.8 points in national polls, according to the most recent RealClearPolitics aggregate.
