The poll surveyed nearly a thousand likely voters this week with a mostly Republican sampling and found Clinton with a 45 to 42 percent advantage over Trump.
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Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton has extended her lead over Republican rival Donald Trump to eight percentage points, according to a Reuters/Ipsos poll. WSJ’s Shelby Holliday breaks down the numbers.
With Libertarian Party nominee Gary Johnson included, Clinton has a 44-35 percent lead over Trump, with Johnson at 12 percent.
Clinton leads Trump 49 per cent to 39 per cent in a head-to-head Fox News survey released on Wednesday.
In the previous NBC News/The Wall Street Journal poll, Clinton had an advantage of five percentage points over Trump.
A CNN/ORC poll this week showed Clinton with a similar 9-point edge over Trump nationally.
Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid, speaking to reporters after introducing Clinton at a campaign event in his home state of Nevada, said he is anxious Democrats could become overconfident. Trump has recently feuded with the Muslim family of a slain USA soldier and infuriated the Republican establishment by not endorsing House Speaker Paul Ryan.
On an appearance today on Morning Joe, Congressman Charlie Dent declared that he, “has no plans” to vote for Donald Trump.
Whitman said she stood by remarks earlier this year in which she compared Trump to Hitler and Mussolini, and said dictators often come to power by democratic means. Among the high-profile Republicans who fall into that second category is Pennsylvania U.S. Sen.
The fundraising gap between the Clinton and Trump campaigns shrank in July.
New Jersey Governor Chris Christie, who dropped out of the Republican presidential primary race and endorsed Trump, said on Tuesday that Trump’s criticisms of the Khans was “inappropriate”. The share of Trump voters who strongly support him remained unchanged at 47%. The poll was taken from July 29 through August 4.
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Pew Research Center’s American Trends Panel was conducted June 7-July 5 among 4,602 adults, including 3,843 registered voters.
