Clinton regains firm lead on Trump after convention
Hillary Clinton got a support bounce of four to seven percentage points after the Democratic National Convention and now holds a substantial lead over Donald Trump in the White House race, polls released Monday showed.
Clinton’s advantage over the Republican Trump is 46 percent
to 39 percent, according to the CBS News poll.After the Republican convention
but prior to the Democratic one, Trump got a two-point bump and the race was
tied, CBS said.
A CNN-ORC poll released later Monday has Clinton, the former
secretary of state, commanding an even larger lead of nine points, 52-43, in
the aftermath of the Democratic confab in Philadelphia.
That poll had Trump ahead 48-45 following the Republican
convention.
Clinton also came out stronger in terms of the share of
Americans who think her policies will move the country in the right direction,
rising from 43 percent of respondents before either convention to 48 percent
today, according to the CNN poll.
Trump’s “right direction” number held nearly steady
following the conventions.
“I think both parties got what they wanted out of their
conventions,” Republican National Committee chairman Reince Priebus told CNN
after the network’s poll was released.
One of Clinton’s biggest problems — Americans’ negative view
of her — remains, but it has eased somewhat since the convention last week, the
CBS survey suggested.
Fifty percent of registered voters have a negative opinion
of Clinton compared to 36 percent who view her positively, the poll said.That
positive number is up five points and the negative one is down six, it added.
Thirty-one percent of voters have a positive opinion of
Trump, which is about the same as before the Republican convention, according
to CBS. Fifty-two percent see him negatively.
The survey was carried out July 29-31 among 1,393 adults and
has a margin of error of three percentage points.
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