Voters with annual household incomes of $100,000 or more prefer Hillary Clinton to Donald Trump, according to a new poll.
In a new Bloomberg Politics poll released Wednesday, Clinton leads Trump, 46 percent-42 percent, among high-income voters, a demographic that historically votes Republican.
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Since 1996, the Republican presidential nominee has won or tied among voters with annual household incomes of $100,000 or more, according to a compilation of exit polls by the Roper Center for Public Opinion Research at Cornell University. This includes 2012, when the group made up 28 percent of the electorate and favored Mitt Romney over Barack Obama by 10 percentage points.
Higher-income voters opt for Trump instead of Clinton when it comes to who would be best for their own personal investments, 45 percent-36 percent. But among that group, 17 percent said they aren’t voting for him.
Wealthier voters give both nominees high negatively ratings. Just 36 percent view Trump favorably, and 42 percent say the same of Clinton.
When third-party candidates are included, the race grows tighter — Clinton drops to 41 percent and Trump is at 37 percent among the wealthy. In that four-way race, Libertarian Party nominee Gary Johnson gets 9 percent and Green Party nominee Jill Stein receives 2 percent.
The opt-in panel poll of 600 respondents was conducted Sept. 16-19, and carries a margin of error of plus or minus 4 percentage points.
