Democratic US presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton has widened her lead over Republican candidate Donald Trump to 8 points after both parties’ nominating conventions, according to a poll released yesterday conducted by the Washington Post and ABC News.
Clinton led Trump 50 to 42 percent among registered voters, according to the telephone survey carried out from Monday to Thursday last week.
She got a strong bounce in the support from her nomination — which unlike the fractious Republican convention, showed a united party — but has also benefited from major gaffes by Trump.
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Ahead of the nominating conventions Clinton had a 4-point lead over Trump, according to a survey conducted by the Washington Post and ABC News.
Among likely voters, Clinton’s lead is 51 to 44 percent, and in a race that includes Libertarian Party candidate Gary Johnson and Green Party candidate Jill Stein, Clinton leads Trump 45 percent to 37 percent, with Johnson at 8 percent and Stein at 4 percent.
Clinton and her running mate, Senator Tim Kaine of Virginia, received the nomination to run for the Nov. 8 presidential election during the July 25 to July 28 Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Trump and his vice presidential candidate, Indiana Governor Mike Pence, were nominated in the July 18 to July 21 Republican National Convention in Cleveland, Ohio.
Trump has been struggling after a string of gaffes.
These include urging Russia to find and release e-mails that disappeared from Clinton’s private server that she used as US secretary of state, although he later said that he was being sarcastic.
He also denigrated the family of a Muslim US soldier killed in the Iraq war, to the horror of veterans and their supporters.
Satisfaction with both candidates remains low — nearly six in 10 registered voters said that they are unhappy with both Clinton and Trump as major party candidates.
Barring campaign or news developments, the next opportunity for the candidates to shift their poll numbers comes in the three presidential debates, scheduled for late September and October.
Seeking to arrest his sinking poll numbers, Trump reversed course on Friday and endorsed US House of Representatives Speaker Paul Ryan’s re-election bid, pleaded for Republican unity and pledged to work with the very party leaders he had earlier dismissed as Washington’s ineffective establishment figures.
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