Clinton up 9 points in Florida

However, 42 percent of voters stated Clinton had the “personality and temperament to serve” as president.

“Men are drawn to Trump’s message while women are not”, he said. Clinton is favored by 47.7 percent in the average of polls, and Trump is backed by 41 percent. The number of likely voters who picked neither Clinton nor Trump in the poll was almost 24 percent.

The numbers haven’t changed much from last week, and Clinton’s and Trump’s low favorability numbers among voters persist, with the Democrat at 59 percent and the Republican at 64 percent.

In a four-way race involving Libertarian Gary Johnson and Green Party candidate Jill Stein, Clinton leads Trump 43 percent to 37 percent.

It came as a series of polls showed Hillary Clinton surging in key battleground states.

Results have an error estimate of +/- 1.2 percent.

In voters 45 years and younger, Clinton leads Trump 60-35. She has stronger support from her party – 92 percent of self-identified Democrats choose Clinton while Florida Republicans are less excited about their party’s nominee.

Public Policy Polling also found that Trump’s fans are increasingly believing his theory that the election will be rigged; 71 percent of Trump supporters said that if Hillary Clinton wins in November, it will be because she stole the election.

At this point in 2012, President Barack Obama was ahead of Republican nominee Mitt Romney by almost the same margin, favoured by 46 per cent of likely voters to Romney’s 41 per cent, with about 13 per cent picking neither candidate. Thirteen percent picked neither candidate.

PPP surveyed 944 likely voters – 80 percent over the phone and 20 percent over the internet – from August 12 to 14.

This is a surprisingly tight race for Texas, one of the most Republican states in the country where Mitt Romney won by a margin of almost 16 percent.

Meanwhile, Clinton is still leading Trump nationally by 9 points, 50 percent to 41 percent, a recent NBC News|SurveyMonkey Weekly Election Tracking Poll conducted August 8-14 shows.

In that match-up, Johnson received 8 percent support and Stein had about 2 percent.