Hillary Clinton Trails All 3 Top Republicans In Head-To-Head Matchups In
A new poll has former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton being trounced by a handful of Republican candidates in potential head to head match-ups in Colorado, a major swing state for the upcoming 2016 presidential election.
Clinton trails all leading Republican contenders in Colorado, according to the poll.
Florida Sen. Marco Rubio would defeat Clinton 52 to 36 in Colorado. There’s a few “Good news for the real estate mogul: The poll is only of voters in Colorado, which won’t matter this year”, since Colorado will not have a preference election.
So too would Trump come out on top, winning 48 percent of the Colorado vote to Clinton’s 37 percent. Ted Cruz of Texas with 14 percent, Carly Fiorina with 5 percent, Sen.
Carson pulled in 25 percent of the vote among Colorado Republicans, with Sen. As many as 67% of voters polled find Clinton to be dishonest and untrustworthy. Rubio followed at 13 percent with Trump scoring 11 percent.
The Democratic presidential candidate’s favorability rating is similarly negative in the state, with 61 percent holding an unfavorable impression of Clinton and only one-third a favorable view. Both have moved since the last poll, with Rubio, the Florida senator, gaining two points, and Carson, the retired brain surgeon, losing four points.
Sanders runs better than Clinton in general election matchups: Rubio over Sanders 52 – 39 percent; Carson beats Sanders 52 – 40 percent; Cruz tops Sanders 49 – 42 percent; and Trump gets 46 percent to Sanders’ 44 percent.
Trump received a negative 34 to 58 rating among voters.
The national poll, which surveyed more than 2,440 Republicans and Republican-leaning voters from November 15 to November 17 via SurveyMonkey, has a margin of sampling error of plus or minus 2.9 percentage points.