But 55 percent of Hillary Clinton’s supporters “say they’re less excited about voting this year than usual”. Just 33% found the Democratic nominee “honest and trustworthy”. Hispanics also favored Clinton 38 percent to 24 percent.
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Hillary Clinton at the CNN Democratic Debate at the Wynn Hotel in Las Vegas, Tuesday, October 13, 2015.
This file photo shows former U.S. secretary of state Hillary Clinton speaking to USA military troops in Kabul, Afghanistan. If Trump were to win by 12 percentage points in SC, he would exceed the 11-point margin of victory that Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney had in 2012. Libertarian candidate Gary Johnson is at 7 per cent and Green Party candidate Jill Stein is at 2 per cent. Women prefer Ms Clinton 53 to 38 per cent, while men favor Trump 54 to 32 per cent. Voters younger than 45 give Ms Clinton an edge (54 percent to 29 per cent for Mr Trump), while non-whites favour Ms Clinton by nearly four-to-one, poll results showed. Dr. Stein is not on the North Carolina ballot.
According to Suffolk, 41% of North Carolina voters said they have a favorable opinion of Trump, the Republican presidential nominee, while 49% said they have an unfavorable opinion.
This Quinnipiac poll, however, is very different from a new Suffolk University poll that has Trump up three points among North Carolinians.
About 6-in-10 oppose building a wall along the entire border with Mexico, and most doubt that Mexico would ultimately pay for that wall, as Trump has suggested (74 percent say that’s unlikely).
“Donald Trump and Mike Pence’s campaign is clearly on a path to victory in South Carolina”, Moore said.
Clinton’s post-convention bump has dwindled as of late, with national polls showing an increasingly tight race.
The topsy-turvy campaign for the presidency has seen both Clinton and Trump holding a significant lead at some point in the last two months, though Clinton has topped Trump more often than not. Clinton leads by a six-point margin among white college graduates, while Trump leads by 20 points among whites without college degrees.
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According to RealClearPolitics.Com, which keeps track of all major national polls, Ms Clinton maintains an average lead of 3.3 percentage points.
