Both candidates struggled in the favorability category, with Clinton leading Trump in an unfavorable opinion with voters ever so slightly at 57 percent to Trump’s 56 percent. The white, non-college-educated voters who gobble up Trump’s talk on immigrants and Muslims just don’t make up enough of the electorate in key swing states to deliver a win.
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The online poll shows Clinton with 48.55 percent to Trump’s 46.5 percent.
The latest poll, which was done from August 18 to 31, shows 44 percent support for the Republican presidential candidate Trump and 23 percent for the Democratic candidate Clinton.
Trump leads Clinton by two points (45 percent to 43 percent) among likely voters in a new national CNN/ORC poll conducted in the first four days of September. Libertarian Gary Johnson stands at 7 percent and the Green Party’s Jill Stein has 2 percent. Thirty-five percent of those who said they support Trump indicated that their mind is “made up”.
Women support Clinton by 15 points (53 percent to 38 percent), while men are behind Trump by a larger margin of 22 points (54 percent to 32 percent). With the first event from the Commission on Presidential Debates only a few weeks away, no third party candidate is now tracking at the 15% minimum support required for stage accessibility for that Long Island, NY event.
Trump, the Republican nominee, is set to campaign in Virginia and North Carolina on Tuesday, two critical states in his path to the presidency. Sixteen percent said Johnson, 18 percent said someone else, 6 percent are undecided and 1 percent said Stein. Meanwhile, Trump was joined by his running mate, Indiana Governor Mike Pence, as he met with a variety of Union representatives. The New York billionaire has a 15-point lead over Clinton, a former US secretary of state, with 52 percent of people over the age of 65 choosing Trump, compared to 37 percent choosing Clinton.
Both candidates remain largely unliked, with majorities saying they have an unfavourable view of each candidate in the new poll.
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The poll, released Tuesday morning, was conducted by telephone among a random national sample of 1,001 US adults.
