Clinton, Trump run neck-and-neck

A Quinnipiac University survey released Wednesday shows 42 percent chose Clinton while 40 percent supported Trump. Both candidates were viewed unfavorably, with 57 percent of the voters having an unfavorable view of each candidate.

Trump, on the other hand, has picked up some additional steam among Republicans in June. The polls tell him he is in deep trouble with major voting groups – like Republicans, and women – without whose substantial support he can’t win.

A similar difference is found in neighboring Wellesley, another wealthy community with a population of almost 28,000, where Clinton raised $196,000 compared to Sanders’ $36,000.

Among all Democrats, 19% are unfavorable towards Clinton; but an even higher percentage of Republicans – 28% – are negative towards Trump. Trump threw Sanders’s words back at Clinton, quoting him as saying she has voted “for virtually every trade agreement that has cost the workers of this country millions of jobs”. He says that any political advantage flowing to Trump from this market-moving vote “should sound an alarm for the Democratic Party”.

Sixty-one percent of those surveyed said they think the 2016 election caused an increased level of prejudice and hatred in America, according to the poll, which found 61 percent blamed Trump and 16 percent blamed Clinton. Only one percent of respondents said the campaign has decreased these sentiments.

The survey of registered voters found that, when the Democrat Clinton was just placed in opposition to the Republican Trump, the former secretary of state had a 52 percent to 31 percent lead over the businessman. They also note that Real Clear Politics, which aggregates data, suggests that her lead in Pennsylvania – a graveyard for Republican presidential hopes – is less than 1 point. Hispanic voters were a bit more divided with Clinton taking 50% of the support to Trump’s 33%.

“This data is further proof that Governor Kasich is the most popular Republican politician in the nation today and it underlines why his efforts to help our U.S. Senate and House candidates are so very important”, the email concludes, with a link to the full poll results. Another 34 percent say it has had no impact.

With third-party candidates included, Clinton leads 39 percent to 37 percent, with Libertarian Party nominee Gary Johnson at 8 percent and Green Party candidate Jill Stein at 4 percent.

Clinton’s overall two-point edge in the latest Quinnipiac poll is less than her lead in two other recent national polls.

New Washington Post/ABC and Reuters polls published over the weekend found Trump trailing Clinton by double digits, while an NBC/Wall Street Journal poll found that the real-estate magnate trailed Clinton by 5 points, down from 3 points in May.