New York – Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton extended her lead over Republican rival Donald Trump to eight percentage points, according to a Reuters/Ipsos poll released on Tuesday, from six points on Friday.
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The bump for Clinton followed the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia last week at which Clinton and her supporters painted an optimistic portrait of America, and came amid controversy over Trump’s comments about the parents of a slain Muslim U.S. soldier.
About 43 percent of likely voters favor Clinton, 35 percent favor Trump, and 9 percent picked “Other,” according to the July 28-Aug. 1 online poll of 1,289 likely voters. The poll had a credibility interval of 3 percentage points.
Trump has faced a barrage of criticism in recent days from political allies as well as opponents after he criticized the parents of U.S. Army Captain Humayun Khan, who was killed in Iraq in 2004.
The father, Khizr Khan, had harsh words for Trump at the Democratic convention where he spoke on Thursday night, saying the 70-year-old businessman and former reality TV star had “sacrificed nothing and no one” and railing against his calls to ban Muslim immigrants.
Trump responded saying Khan “viciously attacked” him, and suggested the man was repeating lines fed to him by the Clinton campaign.
New Jersey Governor Chris Christie, who dropped out of the Republican presidential primary race and endorsed Trump, said on Tuesday that Trump’s criticisms of the Khans was “inappropriate.” House Republican Richard Hanna of New York said it was “not enough to simply denounce his (Trump’s) comments,” and said he would support former Secretary of State Clinton instead.
Trump had a short-lived bump in the polls after the Republican National Convention in Cleveland in late July, when Reuters polling showed him slightly ahead of Clinton for the first time since May.
Never fear the Trump factor!!!! It compounds any poll and moves exponentially!
1289 voters are not representative of the tens of millions of people who will vote.
Polls are biased, useless, and irrelevant.
Hillary for prison 2016
Oh glee…B”H
never take seriously any poll from the wire services which is AP,Reuters,etc
Fortunately the RIBONO shel Oilem runs the world. Trump WILL be the next President. Think about it; why would Hashem make that pompous clown (still a hundred times better than that evil machsheifeh) the Republican nominee (against common sense and confounding all the pundits) for any reason other than to make him president?
At this point, polls go up and down on both sides on a daily basis; hence, they mean bupkis! They probably won’t matter, until after the three debates. In any event, the most important poll is the Electoral College, which will ultimately decide the election. Essentially, this election will be decided by Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Florida. New Yorkers, you can waste your vote on Ms. Hillary!