Clinton leads Trump by 12 points ahead of Republican convention: Reuters poll [View all]
Source: reuters
| Fri Jul 15, 2016 6:10pm EDT
NEW YORK | By Grant Smith and Chris Kahn
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump trailed Democratic rival Hillary Clinton by 12 percentage points in a Reuters/Ipsos poll released on Friday, making him the clear underdog ahead of next week's Republican National Convention.
Forty-five percent of likely voters supported former Secretary of State Clinton, 33 percent supported Trump, the wealthy businessman, and the remainder supported neither, according to the July 11-15 online poll.
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Clinton has been ahead in the poll since early January. Trump only approached her level of support in May, after his last two remaining rivals quit the race and he became the presumptive Republican nominee.
Trump's favorability has dropped since then, .................
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The poll results suggest that Clinton’s use of personal email for government business while secretary of state and her handling of classified information have not damaged her support among likely voters. ...................
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