Clinton leads Trump, pair of polls show
Bernie Sanders said Sunday that presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton will have to adopt more of his positions to win over millions of his supporters and ensure she can defeat Donald Trump in November.
In that poll, 51 percent of voters said they would vote for Clinton while 39 percent said they would vote for Trump.
As of Sunday, the Real Clear Politics poll average has Clinton with a 6.7 point lead over Trump.
This is Clinton’s largest lead in Post-ABC polling since last fall and a dramatic reversal from last month’s survey, which found the race almost even, with Trump at 46 percent and Clinton at 44 percent.
Trump also leads Clinton among independent voters in the WSJ/NBC poll by 10 points, 40% to 30%.
Forty-two percent of respondents say they’d likely vote for Clinton and 35 percent say they’d likely vote for Trump. When third party candidates are added in, Clinton has only a one point lead, so within the margin of error.
Clinton, who has repeatedly pounded Trump as being “temperamentally unfit”, finished the month with $42 million.
The Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll found Clinton with huge leads among minorities – besting Trump 87% to 5% among African-Americans and 69% to 22% with Latinos.
Overall, 66 percent of Americans think Trump’s remarks as “unfairly biased”, while only 29 percent say they are “not unfairly biased”.
Two new polls this morning have some good news for Hillary Clinton and not-so-good news for Donald Trump.
Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton smiles as she campaigns at East Los Angeles College in Los Angeles, the United States, May 5, 2016.
The survey comes after several weeks of controversy for Trump, including his repeated criticism of a federal judge presiding over a Trump University lawsuit in California, and his comments following the Orlando shooting.
The polls indicate Mr Trump has struggled to gain traction with the electorate after dominating the Republican primary. The margin of error is 3.1 percent and the poll sample size was 1,000 voters.
A majority disprove of the way Clinton has handled questions over her use of a personal email server during her tenure as the nation’s top diplomat, and half are anxious about the idea of her in the White House.
Trump’s former campaign manager, Corey Lewandowski, said on CNN this week that there were “no more than four” names on the short-list.
The Post-ABC poll was conducted June 20-23 among a random national sample of 1,001 adults reached on cellular and landline phones.