Donald Trump trails Hillary Clinton by 5 percentage points, 43-48, in a new SurveyMonkey Election Tracking survey, and is out-performed by other leading Republicans tested in the poll.
Mitt Romney, the 2012 GOP presidential nominee, polls even with Clinton, 45-45, in a hypothetical matchup, and Ohio Gov. John Kasich, who pulled out of the 2016 race more than two months ago, has an 8-point advantage, 50-42. Romney and Kasich have both refused to support Trump as the Republican Party’s presumptive nominee and have offered criticism at various points throughout the 2016 campaign.
House Speaker Paul Ryan, who has said he’ll vote for Trump but offered persistent criticism of him, leads Clinton by 2 percentage points, 47-45, in a hypothetical matchup.
Clinton’s 5-percentage-point lead on Trump narrowed from the previous week’s 8-point lead, but is consistent with her average lead over Trump during the previous nine weeks.
The survey polled 10,252 registered voters online from June 27 to July 3. The poll had a bootstrap confidence interval — error estimate — of 1.5 percentage points, but the survey’s overlap with the Fourth of July holiday weekend could raise questions about its reliability.
