Clinton’s lead over Trump narrows to 4 points: Poll

TIL Desk/World/Washington-Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton’s lead over her Republican rival Donald Trump has narrowed to 4 points, according to a new nationwide poll. This is quite low given that in almost all major national polls after the two back-to-back conventions Clinton’s lead was around nine percentage points.

“Forty one per cent of registered voters say if the election were held today they would support Clinton or lean toward Clinton, 37 per cent back Trump, 10 per cent favour (Libertarian candidate Jill) Johnson and four per cent back (Green Party nominee Jill) Stein,” the Pew Research Center said in its findings.

As was the case earlier this year, most voters have doubts that either Clinton or Trump would make a good president. Just 27 per cent of registered voters say that Trump would make a good or great president, while about twice as many (55 per cent) say he would be either poor or terrible (with 43 per cent saying he would make a “terrible” president). Just 15 per cent say Trump would make an “average” president, the poll said.