In earlier contests a groundswell of new voters powered Mr Trump to wins across the US.
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Both Clinton and Trump struggle when it comes to their image in the Sunshine State.
“Jim Ashley says now that Trump is the presumptive nominee, it’s time for him to unify the Republican Party and to bring other candidates that ran against him into the fold”. He campaigned in OR and California on Tuesday and his victory in West Virginia highlighted anew Clinton’s struggles to win over white men and independents – weaknesses Trump wants to exploit in the fall campaign. But the bigger picture for her campaign doesn’t change – Clinton’s delegate lead over Sanders remains virtually insurmountable. Meanwhile, 58 percent of OH voters, 57 percent of Florida voters, and 55 percent of Pennsylvania voters said Mr. Trump is not honest and trustworthy.
A majority of voters in each state said Mr. Trump would do a better job handling the economy, and pluralities in OH and Florida said he would do a better job handling terrorism.
As for some of Trump’s plans, 52 percent of voters polled opposed building a wall along the Mexican border and 54 percent wanted a path to citizenship for immigrants in the United States illegally.
A 48 percent to 35 percent lead among women contributed to Clinton’s overall score of 43 percent in Florida.
For Clinton and Trump, wide gaps in support among women and men and minorities drive the close contests.
Republican voters are also going to the polls in Nebraska on Tuesday. Non-white voters go Democratic 63 percent to 20 percent.
PPP conducted its latest sampling of 1,222 registered voters via landline telephone interviews and online surveys May 6-9.
The telephone poll involved about 3200 likely voters and had a margin of error of plus or minus three percentage points.
Clinton leads Trump nationally by an average of 5.8 percent, according to Real Clear Politics’ aggregated polling data.
Clinton would have a slight edge of 43 to 42 percent in Pennsylvania in the general election and Sanders would beat Trump 47 to 41 percent. It also released results Tuesday of polls in OH and Pennsylvania that showed Trump and Clinton in similarly tight races in those key states.
In Florida, they both had 37 percent/57 percent favorable/unfavorable splits.
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As West Virginians head to the polls today, Donald Trump is expecting an easy win while Hillary Clinton is unlikely to battle back from a comment that damaged her with the coal miners of the state. That made Trump the presumptive nominee as the last person in the GOP race. And in Ohio, Clinton has a seven-point lead among women, but is down 15 points among men. The tight race in Pennsylvania is especially notable, since the Democratic-leaning state hasn’t been won by a Republican presidential candidate since 1988.
