Posted on 05/04/2016 8:31:59 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
As Donald Trump captures the mantle of presumptive Republican nominee, a new poll finds he begins his general election campaign well behind Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton.
The new CNN/ORC Poll, completed ahead of Trump's victory last night, found Clinton leads 54% to 41%, a 13-point edge over the New York businessman, her largest lead since last July.
Clinton is also more trusted than Trump on many issues voters rank as critically important, with one big exception. By a 50% to 45% margin, voters say Trump would do a better job handling the economy than Clinton would.
Almost 9 out of 10 voters in the poll called the economy extremely or very important to their vote for president, outranking any other issue tested in the poll.
Clinton has the edge on a range of other issues. She is more trusted than Trump on terrorism (50% Clinton to 45% Trump), immigration (51% to 44%), health care (55% to 39%), the income gap (54% to 37%), foreign policy (61% to 36%), education (61% to 34%) and climate change (63% to 30%).
Overall, voters are evenly split on their opinion of Clinton -- 49% see her favorably and the same share unfavorably. But a decidedly larger group (56%) see Trump unfavorably than see him favorably (41%).
Trump's path to the GOP nomination became clearer after his win in the Indiana Republican primary Tuesday led to his primary rival, Texas Sen. Ted Cruz, to drop out of the race. While Clinton lost Indiana to her primary rival, Sen. Bernie Sanders, the former secretary of state has a broad lead among delegates.
Trump and Clinton would be the most disliked major party nominees in CNN's polling dating back to 1992, with only two other candidates meriting less than 50% favorability heading into the election
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Lots of voters ride all day on the welfare wagon. LOTS of them.
In the first debate, if Cankles even agrees to debates, she coughs herself to death.
The fifth-column media sycophants of Satan’s daughter leap into action.
Uh, no. At the starting gate, more media lies. The Trump is ahead and will win again, as usual.
Depends ?
Yeah, take this to the bank Hillary. Just sit on it.
Yawn.....
Call me in October.
They have to nullify Rasmussen which has her down by 2. SOP for the left.
These polls are meaningless until September just as they were last month & the month before...
Trump has some work to do, no question. However, these polls are not that scary. Gotta start somewhere!
People with a brain and/or a sense of morality will vote for Trump.
People who just want free stuff will vote for Hillary.
We will find out the percentages in Nov.
A lot of non voters have allowed this to get out of control
A lot of eyes and ears and hearts are being opened
Hillary can barely beat Bernie
He is the anti- democrat establishment
This should get interesting
Only a 13 point deficit? Reagan was down by 30 points at this time in his race against Carter in 1980 and Carter was only dumb not dumb and crooked like the current Dem candidate.
I’ll bet Rush will breathlessly be sighting this “poll” at the opening of his program today. Heck, Rush may not even show up today! :-D
When November comes around you won’t see Shillary as the president elect.
They suddenly switched from “likely voters” to “adults” with some registered voters thrown in. No agenda there.
CNN will be full on propaganda for Hillary they are the DNC..With that said you flip 7 percent..that’s 48 to 46 very doable.
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