Democrats must be having a fit.
Having launched a current president, a former president, a former vice president, Hollywood icons and salacious claims against Donald Trump, a poll released Thursday showed he has retaken the lead in the 2016 presidential race.
Rasmussen reported Trump was at 43 percent support among likely voters, while Hillary Clinton was at 41 percent.
The result was the first to come from polling taking fully after last Sunday’s debate between the two candidates.
Just a day earlier, Clinton was at 43 percent to Trump’s 39 percent.
Rasmussen Reports updates its White House Watch survey daily Monday through Friday and uses a three-day rolling average of 1,500 likely U.S. voters.
The Real Clear Politics Average of polls has Clinton leading by 6.2 points.
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Rasmussen said Libertarian candidate Gary Johnson dropped to 6 percent support, while Green Party candidate Jill Stein holds steady at 2 percent.
Four percent support someone else and another 4 percent are undecided.
“Eighty-four percent (84%) now say they are certain how they will vote in this year’s presidential election, and among these voters, Trump posts a 49% to 46% lead over Clinton. Among voters who say they still could change their minds between now and Election Day, it’s Clinton 40%, Trump 37%, Johnson 19% and Stein four percent (4%),” Rasmussen said.
The group reported Trump has 75 percent support among Republicans, nearly identical to Clinton’s 76 percent backing among Democrats. He has 15 percent of the Democratic vote; she has 13 percent GOP support. Trump holds a double-digit advantage among voters not affiliated with either major political party.
The USC Dornsife/Los Angeles Times “Daybreak” poll, which daily tracks the same 3,000 voters until election day, had Donald Trump at 44.3 percent and Clinton at 44.2 percent.
The Times said voters 35-64 are split evenly. Trump leads among older voters, and the two have exchanged leads among younger voters.
“Trump holds an advantage among voters without a college degree. White voters who have not graduated from college are a core source of support for Trump. By contrast, Clinton has done better among voters with college degrees than previous Democrats.”
Trump leads among middle-income voters but Clinton does better among lower-income voters, “reflecting her strong support among blacks and Latinos.”
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