Few US voters like Hillary Clinton or Donald Trump

With Republican Donald Trump and Democrat Hillary Clinton heading into their party conventions, polls this week gave conflicting pictures about the presidential race in Florida.

The poll also shows that 75 percent of the participants said their only motivation to vote in the November presidential election was to prevent Clinton or Trump from entering the White House.

In each of the states, a little more than 10 percent say they will back neither candidate.

Half of Americans – 50 percent – now consider Clinton’s emails to be a major problem, up from one-third who said that in October 2015.

But even while they voice concerns about their own candidate, vast majorities of voters see the alternative as far worse.

A number of respondents stated that they would consider leaving the US if their rival candidate was elected as president. This is down from the 15 point lead Clinton had in April’s NBC News/Wall Street Journal/Marist Poll.

A key factor in the race likely will be independent voters, with a Marist analysis saying independents in all four of the states have not “coalesced behind either candidate”.

Minutes later Trump supporter John Burke said the same thing about Hillary Clinton.

In addition, among respondents who said they were political independents, 39% said Ms. Clinton best represented their views on health care, compared to 30% who said Mr. Trump, did, while 23% said neither did.

The new poll, by contrast, shows Clinton’s support plunging by 16 percentage points, down to 45 percent, while Trump’s support has only dropped two points to 23 percent. This is the first time that Trump’s favorables, low as they are, are higher than Clinton’s.

“I don’t think she is a strong socialist but would propose a lot of help in job training, infrastructure projects, perhaps corporate tax reform”, Friedman noted. After Trump doubled down on his stance to build the wall and prevent any new Muslims from entering the United States, Clinton regained her double-digit lead in numerous polls.

Friday’s poll revealed that Clinton’s lead is increasing in Florida to seven points, 44 to 37 percent. In the July survey, pollsters added the options of neither, which got 11 percent, and other, which got 2 percent.

“Lawmakers say Clinton’s former Democratic opponent, Bernie Sanders, received applause at the lunch”.