A new WBUR poll of likely voters in New Hampshire finds that Hillary Clinton has opened up a 15-point lead against Donald Trump.
Advertisement
According to the latest polling, Democrat Hillary Clinton holds commanding leads in New Hampshire, Pennsylvania and Michigan- three states that Trump hoped to attract with his populist economic message.
The poll conducted by Marist Institute for Public Opinion in NY said last month Clinton’s lead was 42-39 advantage over Trump. Phoenix-based OH Predictive Insights surveyed 996 likely voters on August 1 in a poll that included Libertarian Gary Johnson and Green Party candidate Jill Stein.
The poll shows Republicans are divided by their party’s candidate.
Fifty-eight percent of the voters surveyed thought Trump was not qualified to lead the country, lacking the temperament or knowledge to be president.
When it comes to Trump’s recent comments about the parents of a Muslim-American U.S. Army captain, 77 percent of voters are familiar with the feud between Trump and the slain soldier’s family. NBC News reported Tuesday that pro-Clinton forces intend to spend approximately $98 million in TV ads through the November election, while groups backing Trump have dropped around $1 million to date. A majority of the voters, 64 percent, still say the Democrat has the temperament and knowledge that qualify her to be president.
Clinton’s edge was at 48% to 33%, a drastic difference between the 42% to 39% advantage that the poll found her to have in July.
In a surprising Utah poll, a state which has voted Republican for decades, a Hinckley Institute/Salt Lake Tribune survey shows the Democrats in the lead.
Advertisement
A separate poll, conducted by NBC News/Wall Street Journal, shows Clinton has almost doubled her five-point advantage over Trump. Clinton is ahead by one point, 36 percent to 35 percent, according to KUTV.
