“In Hillary Clinton’s America, the system stays rigged against Americans”, a narrator says over ominous music and a darkly lit montage of refugee camps and police apprehending border crossers.
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Donald Trump’s first general election television ad focuses on some of the same themes he’s been hitting since his first day on the campaign trail: safety, immigration and border security. That compares with 34 percent support for Trump.
The Reuters/Ipsos poll, released on Friday evening, shows the former secretary of state has 42 percent of the votes as compared to the NY billionaire having only a 34-percent support.
However, Clinton’s lead over Trump slimmed slightly in a four-way match-up that included Libertarian nominee Gary Johnson and Green Party nominee Jill Stein. In that scenario, Johnson earned 7 percent, while Stein bagged 2 percent. But Trump has a stronger lead among male voters, 54 to 43 percent, than Clinton has with women voters, which is 44 to 39 percent.
Trump has hinted that if he were to lose the election, it would be because of the system in place that is “rigged” against him.
Republican leaders, including former members of Congress, have called for the Republican National Committee to stop helping Trump and refocus its resources on helping candidates win down-ballot races for the House of Representatives and the Senate.
The Reuters/Ipsos poll was conducted online in English in all 50 states.
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The Pew poll was conducted August 9-16 of 2,010 adults, including 1,567 registered voters.
