Trump introduces Gov. Mike Pence as ‘my partner in this campaign’

Clinton’s lead slips to 5 points with third party candidates factored in.

“If it was true that Trump did not represent Republicans broadly defined, you would think Republicans would look different; they don’t”, said Douglas McAdam, a sociology professor at Stanford University who studies American politics.

In addition, half of voters – 50 percent – say she doesn’t have the right judgment to make a good president based upon what they know about the FBI investigation into her email practices, versus 33 percent who say she has the right judgment.

Clinton referenced those controversies in her remarks Thursday, dwelling on Trump’s characterization of U.S. District Judge Gonzalo Curiel as a “Mexican judge” – which she called “a cynical calculated attempt to fan the flames of racial division”.

Presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton was in Springfield, Ill., Wednesday where she sought to use the symbolism of a historic landmark to draw parallels to a present-day America that is in need of repairing deepening racial and cultural divides.

“She’ll get the best done that she can”, Kafka said, adding that both Trump and Clinton were too aggressive on foreign policy for his taste. In this poll, independent voters were more apt to back her in the two-way matchup than they were last June, but in a four-way contest, her support among independents is steady.

Polling on none of the other belief systems and their perceived connection to terrorism or violence came close to matching those numbers.

“Donald Trump enters the Republican Convention on a small roll in the three most important swing states in the country”, Peter A. Brown, assistant director of the poll, said in a released statement.

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. And in each state, more than one in 10 say they won’t vote for either, or prefer a third party candidate.

Donald Trump at a campaign event in New York City.

Clinton is ahead of Trump in North Carolina 44% to 38%, a state which President Barack Obama won for Democrats in 2008 for the first time since 1976.

“The American people are exhausted”, Pence said. Results have a margin of sampling error of plus or minus 3.8 percentage points.

The NBC/Wall Street Journal poll surveyed 1,000 registered voters between July 9 and July 13, while the Washington Post/ABC poll surveyed 1,003 adults, including 816 registered voters, between July 11 and July 14, and the CNN/ORC poll surveyed 1,013 adults, including 872 registered voters, between July 13 and July 16.