Clinton gets soaring 15-point national lead over Trump: polls

With Donald Trump’s poll numbers tanking, Republicans are starting to worry.

The new Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll, released Thursday, shows Clinton with a nine-point lead over the NY businessman. According to our now-cast, Clinton would defeat Trump by a similar margin nationally, 7.9 percentage points, in a hypothetical election held today.

It shows Clinton leading Trump 41 percent to 9 percent with voters 18-29.

“So, I think we were pretty much on the mark”, he said. Click the link for additional poll data.

“This is an example of somebody who doesn’t have the courage to stand up” to Trump, said Sen. Conversely, only 52 percent of Trump voters said their vote was for him, while 39 percent said it was more of a vote against Clinton.

The findings come after both conventions ended and a particularly rough patch for Trump, who engaged in a war of words with the family of a slain Muslim U.S. soldier and infuriated many Republicans when he refused to endorse two of the party’s top elected officials.

“This is coming off the Democratic convention, where a bounce is expected”, Lee Miringoff, director of the institute said. Donald Trump won the state. “If you’re in a world where it’s over 10, then this is a landslide of historic proportions”, said Professor Goldstein.

Trump has repeatedly said he can compete with Clinton for African-American, Hispanic and other minority voters. The Republican had only 1 percent of support from blacks, while Clinton received 91 percent, the NBC/WSJ poll finds.

The conspiracy centres around Trump’s former close connections to the Clintons, his funding of their Clinton Foundation, and his membership of the Democratic party for several years during the 2000s.

The telephone poll of 800 registered voters was conducted July 31-Aug. 3.

“Trump’s vulnerabilities by complimenting him”, wrote former Central Intelligence Agency deputy director Michael Morell in a New York Times op-ed. About two-thirds of those who watched the Democrats said they were more likely to back her. Trump was mentioned that way by 40 percent of those who saw his convention.

Other polls showed Clinton expanding her advantage by slightly more modest – though still significant – margins.

A self-identified nonpartisan who has worked under both Republican and Democratic governments, Morell called Clinton “highly qualified” to lead the USA, having worked with the Democratic nominee when she served as secretary of state.

Ryan has endorsed Trump, but he said in a Friday radio interview that his endorsement isn’t a “blank check” and pledged to speak out against the businessman’s divisive positions if necessary.

Throughout the primary process, millennials overwhelmingly threw their support behind Bernie Sanders, who put forward an inspiring and ambitious message emphasizing economic justice and promising to reign in the massive institutions that exert such profound influence on the political process. But Trump seems to be losing a rather large number of conservative voters to Hillary Clinton.