Hillary Clinton leads Donald Trump by 7 points in Pennsylvania, according to a new poll released Thursday – the second survey this week showing Clinton with a high single-digit lead over Trump in the Keystone State.
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According to the poll, 80 percent of Donald Trump supporters say they are scared of Hillary Clinton being elected in November. It’s likely there will be many polls released next week to mark that campaign kickoff, and since voters typically begin tuning in more closely to the campaign once the summer ends, those figures will be more meaningful for all candidates.
She had a 10-point head-to-head advantage earlier this month (49-39 percent), in the wake of the Democratic convention and Trump’s clash with the parents of a Gold Star soldier. Her previous high for unfavorable views was in June, when 55 percent disliked Clinton.
That came as numerous recent polls showed Trump increasingly close to Clinton.
Last week’s version of the same poll showed Clinton ahead by 4 points – 42 percent to 38 percent.
In that interview, Clinton said she “did not recall receiving any emails she thought should not be on an unclassified system”, the Federal Bureau of Investigation documents say, according to The New York Times.
In Fox’s first four-way poll of the candidates, Clinton gets 41 per cent and Trump 39.
“Backlash against Trump’s divisive rhetoric and unsafe campaign, including his embrace of a deportation force and the alt-right hate movement, have increased the opportunities in the state”, a senior campaign official said. All polls used in calculating the average include both Gary Johnson and Jill Stein on the list of candidates tested.
The survey reflects interviews with 736 Pennsylvania registered voters and has a margin of error of plus or minus 4.6 percentage points.
All polls, however, agree that for the moment at least, Clinton’s share of the vote is declining steeply and Trumps’s is beginning to rally.
Clinton has also seen her favorable rating in Pennsylvania drop and unfavorable rating increase while Trump’s favorable rating has ticked up and his unfavorable rating has declined, F&M reported.
62% of registered voters say that undocumented immigrants now working in the United States should be allowed to stay and eventually apply for citizenship.
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More than one in four – 27 percent – of the registered voters had not decided on which candidate to support. The public remains divided over the 2010 health overhaul, with 42 percent holding an unfavorable view, and 40 percent favoring it.
