Republican Donald Trump is keeping a single-digit lead with Texas’ likely voters, but Democrat Hillary Clinton is close and voters think she would do a better job on foreign policy and education, according to results of a Texas Lyceum poll announced Thursday. Trump earned 44 percent of the vote compared to Clinton’s 46 percent among likely voters.
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Trump voters specifically were more enthusiastic than those supporting Mrs Clinton – with 45 per cent of the billionaire real-estate investor’s backers saying they felt very enthusiastic about voting, compared with 36 per cent of the former top U.S. diplomat and first lady’s supporters saying they felt that way.
According to the poll, more than half of voters on both sides of the aisle believe that their prospective candidate has released enough of their medical records (53 percent of Clinton voters, 52 percent of Trump voters) but want the respective candidate to release more information. Only 29 percent of young voters are supporting Trump, but 21 percent say they’ll vote for someone else or won’t vote.
White voters lacking a college degree gave Mr Trump a strong show of support – 58 per cent – while Mrs Clinton led Mr Trump among white college graduate voters.
Fifty-six percent of Clinton supporters are voting for Clinton and 37 percent are voting against Trump while 49 percent of Trump supporters are voting for their candidate and 45 percent are voting against Clinton.
Clinton has been off the trail since Sunday, attempting to recover from a case of pneumonia.
Mr Trump faces continued struggles to gain support among African-American voters, though he has an advantage over Mrs Clinton among whites. Republican voters saw a 9-point drop in enthusiasm, from 47 percent to 38 percent. But Trump has a 7-point lead among likely those who say they vote regularly and take an interest in elections.
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Poll participants expressed ambivalence about the need for more information on the candidates’ medical histories. Under the rules set by the Commission on Presidential Debates, a candidate must reach an average of 15 percent support in five major news media polls, including the Times/CBS News poll. The margin of error for the sample of likely voters is plus or minus three points.
