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deminks

(11,006 posts)
Sun Jun 26, 2016, 10:42 AM Jun 2016

In new poll, support for Trump has plunged, giving Clinton a double-digit lead

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/in-new-poll-support-for-trump-plunges-giving-clinton-a-double-digit-lead/2016/06/25/0565bef6-3a31-11e6-a254-2b336e293a3c_story.html

Support for Donald Trump has plunged as he has alienated fellow Republicans and large majorities of voters overall in the course of a month of self-inflicted controversies, propelling Democrat Hillary Clinton to a double-digit lead nationally in a new Washington Post-ABC News poll.

The survey finds sweeping unease with the presumptive Republican nominee’s candidacy — from his incendiary rhetoric and values to his handling of both terrorism and his own business — foreshadowing that the November election could be a referendum on Trump more than anything else.

Roughly two in three Americans say they think Trump is unqualified to lead the nation; are anxious about the idea of him as president; believe his comments about women, minorities and Muslims show an unfair bias; and see his attacks on a federal judge because of his Mexican American heritage as racist.

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There is also little evidence that Trump is winning over Democratic primary voters. On the campaign trail in recent weeks, Trump has made direct appeals to disaffected supporters of Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.). But the poll finds that just 8 percent of voters who backed Sanders in the primaries say they support Trump, down from 20 percent in May.

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The Post-ABC poll was conducted June 20-23 among a random national sample of 1,001 adults reached on cellular and landline phones. The margin of sampling error for overall results is plus or minus 3.5 percentage points.

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In new poll, support for Trump has plunged, giving Clinton a double-digit lead (Original Post) deminks Jun 2016 OP
That hasn't stopped wall to wall media coverge of this a-hole Iliyah Jun 2016 #1

Iliyah

(25,111 posts)
1. That hasn't stopped wall to wall media coverge of this a-hole
Sun Jun 26, 2016, 11:12 AM
Jun 2016

Turned to local news, T-rump . . even on the local channel 11 news (fake news) they are allowing Newt G to talk, it's un-real.

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