A McClatchy-Marist poll released Thursday also shows Clinton with a double-digit lead over Trump, 48-33 percent.
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Clinton led by just three points in the same poll last month.
“This is coming off the Democratic convention, where a bounce is expected”, said Lee Miringoff, the director of the Marist Institute for Public Opinion in NY, which conducted the nationwide survey.
A new Atlanta Journal-Constitution poll out Friday showed Clinton with a 4-point lead over Donald Trump, 44 percent to 40 percent, narrowly within the poll’s margin of error of plus or minus 4 percentage points. After the latest polls, Clinton has an average lead of 6.7 percent over Trump.
An average of polls aggregated by Real Clear Politics showed Clinton ahead of Trump by 6.8 percentage points on Friday, up from 3.9 on August 1. Not only did she receive a higher bounce in poll numbers, but viewers received Clinton’s acceptance much more positively than they did Trump’s.
Donald Trump is a numbers guy, and the numbers aren’t good after a series of state and national polls released in the last 24 hours show the Republican presidential nominee down in virtually every survey, several in double digits.
Trump additionally scores an advantage with independents, 36 percent of whom choose him over Clinton’s 32 percent.
Clinton was referring to an incident past year when Trump kicked Ramos, a Univision anchor, out of a press conference for asking about Trump’s plan to deport all undocumented immigrants. But a common strain from the Democratic and Republican conventions was that Georgia has the chance to turn blue for the first time since Bill Clinton’s 1992 win over President George H.W. Bush. The Democratic nominee retains an advantage, 41% to 38%, with Libertarian candidate Gary Johnson and Green Party candidate Jill Stein included in the survey.
Here are five takeaways from the surveys that address whether Clinton can hold her post-convention bounce and the overall state of U.S. They alsos say over 60 percent of the state’s voters don’t consider Trump to be qualified for the job of president.
But all of that paled in comparison to the week Trump had and left the Democratic ticket of Clinton and Tim Kaine free to go about their business campaigning in swing states and building party unity in relative obscurity. In contrast, Trump’s favorability rating changed by only a very small amount, losing one percent to his positive rating.
The poll said 55 percent of registered voters have an unfavorable opinion of Clinton.
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Out of all these polls, the Pennsylvania poll is the most interesting to observers, considering the role the state plays in the Trump campaign strategy.
