Swing-state polls: Trump, Clinton neck-and-neck

The new poll by Quinnipiac University released on Wednesday also found the race too close to call in the critical swing states of Florida, Ohio and Pennsylvania.

In a head-to-head matchup, Trump leads Clinton by a margin of 42 percent to 39 percent in Florida, erasing the Democrat’s eight-point lead in June, according to the poll conducted by Quinnipiac University. The biggest margin is in Pennsylvania, where Clinton leads Trump in the non-white vote 72 percent to 12 percent.

“Donald Trump enters the Republican convention on a small roll in the three most important swing states in the country”, Brown said. Among likely voters, Clinton was at 43 percent, Trump at 37 percent, Johnson at 8 percent and Stein at 2 percent.

He added, “While there is no definite link between Clinton’s drop in Florida and the U.S. Justice Department decision not to prosecute her for her handling of e-mails, she has lost ground to Trump on questions which measure moral standards and honesty”.

Some 60 percent of likely voters have an unfavorable view of Trump, compared with 58 percent on July 1.

“It is absolutely imperative for the future of this country that Donald Trump not be elected president of the United States”, he said on “Good Morning America” today, reinforcing his Tuesday endorsement of Hillary Clinton.

Sanders’s comments came a day after he formally endorsed Hillary Clinton as the Democratic nominee for president.

A slew of NBC/Wall Street Journal/Marist College surveys released later Wednesday painted a slightly different picture in Pennsylvania, where a poll showed Trump trailing Clinton by 9 points.

“I think what we have to focus on is not Donald Trump as a person, not Hillary Clinton as a person”, said Sanders. White voters go Republican 46 – 35 percent, while non-white voters go Democratic 69 – 15 percent.

Though the Quinnipiac polls was conducted partially before FBI Director James Comey’s staunch criticisms of Clinton’s email practices while serving as secretary of state, Brown pointed out that survey respondents had begun to see Trump as more honest and trustworthy.

“Trump’s also helped by the political environment with 71 percent of Florida voters agreeing “that the old ways don’t work and it’s time for radical change” and 80 percent of them agreeing “that public officials “‘don’t care much what people like me think.'” Trade is also helping Trump as 55 percent of Florida voters agree “that foreign trade agreements have hurt me personally” but 39 percent disagree.

The poll of 1,015 registered Florida voters was taken from June 30-July 11 and had a margin of error of +/- 3.1 percent. Both of those leads are within the poll’s margin of error.