The Siena/NYT Upshot comes the morning after Fox News released a poll of North Carolina, showing Donald Trump five points ahead, 47-42, among likely voters in the state. Clinton, however, enjoys a comfortable lead in the national race.
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Libertarian nominee Gary Johnson now has nine percent support, while the Green Party’s Jill Stein has three percent.
Almost seven in 10 voters, 69 percent, said Trump’s controversial rhetoric concerns them, a NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll said Wednesday.
In the poll that also includes Libertarian nominee Gary Johnson and Green Party nominee Jill Stein, Trump holds a 44% to 39% advantage over Clinton.
When Clinton is in a two-way race against Trump, she shoots up to 48 percent support among likely voters while Trump is at 41 percent.
“Donald Trump has closed the margin since August, but as we head towards the debate, still needs to push this campaign closer”, Republican pollster Bill McInturff, who conducted the poll with Democrat Fred Yang, said.
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Despite giving the Democratic nominee the edge in the race, the survey, which polled 1,000 registered voters from September 16 to 19, found that 41 percent of respondents believe Trump is more honest and straightforward and 46 percent said they think he is better on the economy. The subset of 922 likely voters had a margin of error of 3.2 percentage points. The third most concerning topic, according to 64 percent of voters, is Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email server while she served as secretary of state. Trump leads by 3 points in Nevada, 43 percent to 40 percent, 5 points in North Carolina, 45 percent to 40 percent, and 5 points in OH, 42 percent to 37 percent, the poll finds.
