Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton are in a dead heat as the Republicans head into their presidential nominating convention next week, a poll released on Thursday said. But 53 percent would prefer that Republican leaders in Congress have more of a say about the party’s future than Trump, the poll said. A staggering 47 percent of Trump supporters and 46 percent of Clinton supporters are only backing their candidate in order to prevent the other candidate from winning – not exactly a ringing endorsement for either of them. While most politicians do their fair share of pandering, Clinton has changed her views drastically on important issues. In Florida, Quinnipiac found Trump up 3 percentage points to Clinton, 42%-39%.
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Poll after poll shows more and more voters disappointed with both Clinton and Trump, so much so they just don’t want to vote at all on Election Day.
The Harvard IOP poll finds Clinton topping Trump by a 45-percent-to-23-percent margin among those most likely to vote in the fall, with 13 percent behind Libertarian candidate Gary Johnson and another 19 percent unsure who they’d support.
“Donald Trump is running the most divisive campaign of our lifetime”, Mrs. Clinton said. The poll was conducted after the Federal Bureau of Investigation recommended she not face criminal charges for her use of a private email account and servers as secretary of state.
In the WSJ/NBC Marist surveys, both candidates are slowed by steadfastly high unfavorable ratings, with significant majorities in all four states saying they have negative views of Clinton and Trump. That number dropped to 49 percent when pollsters surveyed registered voters.
Meanwhile, Clinton voters hold a more positive view of globalization and are more optimistic about the USA job market.
“Just listen closely, because when Trump talks about making America great again, that is code for taking us back to a time when racial minorities and women were marginalized, ostracized, treated as less than the full citizens, the full participants, the full human beings that we are”, she said.
In nearly every election since 1988, younger voters have favored the Democrat over the Republican by a margin of nine points or more.
The GenForward Survey was conducted online June 14-27 among 1,965 adults age 18-30.
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The margin of sampling error is plus or minus three percentage points for all voters.
