Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump tops Democrat Hillary Clinton 44 percent to 37 percent in a new poll, giving him three straight weeks of leading his challenger as he enters the Republican National Convention.
Rasmussen Reports, in a survey of likely U.S. voters, found that 13 percent support “some other candidate” and a surprisingly low 6 percent are undecided.
The 7 point gap in the Rasmussen poll is the widest since October and also shows that Clinton is continuing to lose ground.
The poll finds strong support among conservatives and Republicans for Trump, a sign that he has won over his party critics as he readies for the Cleveland convention.
The poll also showed the Clinton is getting killed by white voters 49 percent to 32 percent. She now trails Trump by 17 points among white voters after the murder last week of five white policemen in Dallas which Trump has attributed to anti-police rhetoric by President Obama, Clinton and others.
That is a wider gap than Rasmussen has charted previously. Her support among black and other minority voters holds steady.
The poll does show a wider Trump lead than others, but the pollster notes that it surveys “likely” voters, considered a more accurate gauge than “registered voters,” as the New York Times recent poll surveyed.
Trump leads among men, and all voters over 40. Among younger voters he and Clinton are tied at 34 percent.
He is winning 20 percent of the black vote, also.
Trump also holds more Republicans than Clinton does Democrats. Some 80 percent of Republicans back Trump, while just 72 percent of Democrats back Clinton.
What’s more 77 percent of self-identified conservatives back Trump, while 73 percent of self-identified liberals back Clinton.
Paul Bedard, the Washington Examiner’s “Washington Secrets” columnist, can be contacted at [email protected]
