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WASHINGTON DC, USA – The US presidential battle is too close to call, but one element is clear: Americans have soured on candidates Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump, a poll released Wednesday, June 29, showed.
Respondents to the latest Quinnipiac University national poll put Clinton ahead of Trump just 42% to 40%, a narrowing from Clinton’s four-point margin in the organization’s June 1 survey.
It is also considerably closer than the 12-point Clinton advantage in an ABC News/Washington Post poll published Sunday which highlighted Clinton capitalizing on Trump’s recent mis-steps.
The Quinnipiac survey of 1,610 registered voters notably showed that 61% believe the 2016 election “has increased the level of hatred and prejudice in the US.”
Of that group, two thirds blame the Trump campaign, with just 16% blaming Clinton’s team.
Overall the survey shows less-than-flattering views of both candidates in the months before the November 8 election to determine who succeeds President Barack Obama in the White House.
“Voters find themselves in the middle of a mean-spirited, scorched earth campaign between two candidates they don’t like. And they don’t think either candidate would be a good president,” Quinnipiac poll assistant director Tim Malloy said in a statement.
Trump has made several incendiary statements during the campaign, including a call for banning Muslims from entering the United States, and describing Mexicans as rapists and criminals.
It has been a tumultuous week for Trump, a political novice who recently fired his campaign manager and faced criticism for having a paltry $1.3 million war chest at the end of May.
Following the mass shooting at a gay nightclub in Orlando, the brash businessman earned rebukes for tweeting out self-congratulations over “being right on radical Islamic terrorism.”
Respondents said by 58% to 33% that former secretary of state Clinton is better prepared to be president than Trump.
But they said Trump would be better at creating jobs (52-40%) and at handling Islamic State extremists (52-39).
The poll has a margin of error of 2.4 percentage points. – Rappler.com
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