Donald Trump trails Hillary Clinton by 7 percentage points nationally, according to the latest Suffolk University/USA Today poll.
The Democratic presidential nominee leads Trump 48-41 percent among likely general-election voters, while 9 percent remain undecided. Clinton also leads Trump by 7 points in a four-way matchup against Libertarian candidate Gary Johnson and Green Party nominee Jill Stein.
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The poll comes one day after Clinton’s favorability rating reached an all-time low in an ABC News/Washington Post survey released on Wednesday. New developments related to Clinton’s private email practices and dealings between the Clinton Foundation and State Department have roiled her campaign over the past two weeks.
A separate poll released Thursday by the right-leaning Rasmussen Reports showed Trump leading Clinton by a single percentage point, 40-39. Still, the former first lady maintains a 5-point lead in the RealClearPolitics average of national polls.
Clinton continues to lead Trump among women, 54-38, in the Suffolk University/USA Today poll, and among minority voters. Slightly more voters in the same poll said Trump is not honest or trustworthy (61 percent) than those who said the same of Clinton (59 percent).
The Suffolk poll of 1,000 likely voters was conducted Aug. 24-29, ahead of Trump’s visit to Mexico and major immigration speech on Wednesday. Results contain a margin of error plus or minus 3 percentage points.
