Hillary Clinton leads Donald Trump by 9 points: Survey

TIL Desk/World/Washington-Hillary Clinton has a lead of nine points over her Republican rival Donald Trump with roughly four-in-ten voters saying it is difficult to choose between them because neither would make a good US president, according to a latest survey by a nonpartisan American think tank.

In a two-way contest, 51 per cent of registered voters support presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Clinton, 68, or lean towards her while 42 per cent support or lean towards presumptive Republican presidential nominee Trump, 70, Pew Research Center said in its latest survey yesterday.

However, the overall satisfaction with the choice of candidates is at its lowest point in two decades, it said. Currently, fewer than half of registered voters in both parties, 43 per cent of Democrats and 40 per cent Republicans, say they are satisfied with their choices for president, the survey said.