Hillary Clinton leads Donald Trump by 6 points in a head-to-head general election matchup, according to a new poll.
The new Bloomberg Politics national poll suggests that Clinton’s lead can be attributed to 61 percent of likely voters saying they’re no longer impressed with Trump’s business experience.
In the poll of likely voters conducted Aug. 5-8, Clinton leads Trump 50 percent to 44 percent.
Clinton’s lead over Trump drops to just 4 points (44 percent to 40 percent) when Libertarian Party nominee Gary Johnson and Green Party nominee Jill Stein are added to the mix. In that race, Johnson picks up 9 percent and Stein gets 4 percent.
More than half (56 percent) of Clinton supporters say they choose her because they like her as compared to 56 percent of Trump supporters who say they want him to be president because they are anti-Clinton.
Clinton’s lead can also be attributed to Democrats who once backed her rival Sen. Bernie Sanders. The poll found 94 percent of Democrats support Clinton, including 93 percent of Democrats who backed Sanders.
Clinton support comes from majorities of non-whites, women, Northeast dwellers, voters under the age of 35, unmarried voters and college-educated voters.
Meanwhile, Trump’s support comes from a majority of white men without college degrees, non-college educated voters and evangelicals.
The poll has a margin of error of plus or minus 3.6 percentage points among 749 likely voters and 3.1 percentage points on questions that included the full sample of 1,007 U.S. adults.
