Hillary Clinton has a strong lead in Florida and Virginia, according to two new polls out Tuesday.
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According to the NBC News/SurveyMonkey Weekly Election Tracking Poll, released on Tuesday, the former secretary of state is viewed negatively by 59 percent of voters and the NY billionaire by 64 percent.
Among those likely to vote in the state, Clinton beats Trump by 8 points (51% to 43%), and leads him by 7-points in a four-way race. Seventy-one percent of Trump voters think that if Clinton wins in November, the election was rigged.
According to PPP, both candidates are deeply unpopular with both posting negative ratings of greater than 50 percent (Trump 53 percent negative; Clinton 59 percent negative).
Clinton’s lead drops to six points over Trump, 43-37 percent, when Libertarian candidate Gary Johnson and the Green Party’s Jill Stein are added to the choices. The margin of error is 1.2 points. The survey had 41 percent Republican respondents, 35 percent Democratic respondents, and 24 percent saying independent or other.
Another almost 24 percent of likely voters chose neither of the major party’s nominees.
Trump’s support has experienced wider shifts ranging from 33 percent to 39 percent while his campaign has endured controversies and distractions in recent weeks.
For comparison purposes, Republican Mitt Romney won the state of Texas in 2012 by 16 points over President Barack Obama. The Washington Post poll surveyed 888 registered voters between August 11 and 14 with a 4 percentage point margin of error.
In a separate poll Clinton maintained that 6-point lead over Trump in a four-candidate match-up.
More than 120 Republicans, including former members of Congress and Republican National Committee (RNC) staff, wrote a letter calling for the RNC to stop helping Trump, saying his actions were “divisive and risky”.
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This is a surprisingly tight race for Texas, one of the most Republican states in the country where Mitt Romney won by a margin of almost 16 percent. Eleven percent support Johnson and 4 percent back Stein, the poll found.
