Hillary Clinton Leads Donald Trump in New National Poll

More than eight in ten Trump voters – 83 percent – say they would never consider Hillary Clinton and 85 percent of Clinton’s battleground-state voters would never consider Donald Trump.

The ABC News/Washington Post poll shows Clinton ahead 47 to 43 percent, while NBC News and The Wall Street Journal pegged the race at 46-41 and CNN/ORC International at 49-42. Last month’s poll had Clinton with a double-digit advantage: 51 percent to Trump’s 39 percent.

He’s been critical of Trump’s proposed temporary ban on foreign Muslims entering the US, calling the idea “offensive and unconstitutional”.

The survey also highlights the degree to which Americans are motivated by negative impulses rather than seeing the choice in positive terms.

Deciding on how to poll third-party and independent candidates can be tricky ― research finds that, while surveys that don’t include those candidates by name tend to understate their support, those that do include them often overestimate how much backing they’ll receive. See the variety of Trump / Clinton masks HERE.

The polls were conducted during an especially tense week in which a racist black gunman shot dead five police officers in Dallas and black men were killed by police officers in Minnesota and Louisiana. Polls out earlier this week show tightening battles in many of those states amid fallout from the Justice Department’s decision to not pursue criminal charges against Clinton for her use of a private email server at the State Department.

Tune in to “Meet the Press with Chuck Todd”, airing at 2 p.m. ET / 11 a.m. PT on NBC today, for a preview of the Republican National Convention following final round coverage of the 145th Open from NBC Sports Group. It’s the first time in the history of the NBC/WSJ poll that both parties have been underwater going into the conventions. Antipathy to Clinton and Trump in particular is part of the issue, he said, but it’s largely about a deepening feeling of enmity toward all representatives of the opposing party. It said 64 percent view Trump unfavorably, with 54 percent looking negatively at Clinton. Democrats now have about 250,000 more registered voters there than Republicans. Trump conceded that one of the reasons he’d selected Pence was to promote unity within the Republican Party, left deeply fractured by Trump’s ascent.

Clinton is reportedly eyeing Iowa’s former governor, Tom Vilsack, the current secretary of agriculture, as a vice presidential pick, which could help the presumptive Democratic nominee shore up support in that state. Barack Obama won the state by almost 10 points in 2012, and it hasn’t gone to the Republican Party candidate since 1988. That represents nearly no change for either Clinton or Trump, but a 4-point bump for Johnson. He holds his widest edge over Clinton on handling ISIS, and also holds an edge on handling taxes.

She bests Trump by a almost 3-1 margin (66 percent to 24 percent) among Latinos and maintains an even more staggering 91 percent to 7 percent cushion among blacks.