US Electoral 2016 Updates: Clinton and Trump in Virtual Tie According to Latest Polls
Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton in a virtual tie in a four-way race in a national poll. Reuters/Ipsos polls show the two candidates neck and neck.
Latest US electoral 2016 poll results are in: Republican candidate Donald Trump and Democratic Party nominee Hillary Clinton are in a statistical tie. Donald Trump has been trailing behind Clinton in the past electoral polls. But after nominating conventions the past weeks, a new poll bared that the two are in a virtual tie in the presidential race that includes Green Party candidate Jill Stein and Libertarian bet Gary Johnson.
Clinton, who received 41 percent, had a very slim two-percentage point lead over Trump, who got 39 percent.
According to the recent polls, four percent (4%) of the respondents favored Stein. Nine percent preferred (9%) Johnson, which means it is six points short of the average of 15 percent needed in a series of five polls to qualify for the string of presidential debates.
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Zeroing in on the numbers of the two leading candidates, Clinton has as statistically important 6-point lead over Trump, 48 to 42 percent among voters. According to the recent polls, this lead has gone down from a previous 10- point advantage to a virtual tie.
The recent national polls were done via telephone with 1,011 respondents, who are all registered voters.
Results for African- American, Hispanic voters and women
Including Johnson and Stein, Clinton leads over the three among African-American voters at 68 points and 15 points in women. Clinton also has an advantage over Hispanics, where she leads by 19 points.
Other results
White registered voters are in favor of Trump over the Democratic candidate by 13 points. Male voters likewise prefer Trump, where he led by the same margin. Meanwhile, white registered voters who do not have a college degree chose Trump over Clinton by 23 points. White evangelical Christians, on the other hand, are in favor of Trump by 55 points.
The New York City real estate mogul's favorability hit an all-time-high in the national polls at 42 percent,but was two points short of the 45 percent who said that they would vote for Clinton. Around 56 percent said that they did not favor Trump, while 53 percent said that they did not prefer Clinton.
Latest Reuters/Ipsos poll
Like the other national polls, the Reuters/Ipsos poll also bared Clinton neck and neck with Trump. According to the latest numbers, Clinton got 39.6 percent, while Trump had 36.6 percent.
Around 10.3 percent of the 5.607 respondents of the poll preferred neither or other candidates; 7.5 percent refused to take the survey, and six percent (6%) declined to vote.
The numbers were gathered from the Reuters/Ipsos polls conducted from June 26 to July 26, where more than 5,000 respondents participated.
