Donald Trump trails Hillary Clinton by six percentage points in the latest Public Policy Polling survey of U.S. voters, despite enjoying the same level of support among Republicans as Clinton does among Democrats.
According to the poll released Tuesday, Clinton leads Trump 47 to 41 percent among voters likely to participate in the general election.
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When Libertarian Party candidate Gary Johnson and Green Party candidate Jill Stein are factored into the race, the former secretary of state’s lead over Trump shrinks to four percentage points. Between Clinton and Trump, Johnson’s and Stein’s supporters prefer the New York billionaire 36 to 18 percent.
Despite continuing to poll behind Clinton, Trump enjoys roughly the same percentage of support among members of his own party as the former first lady. Seventy-eight percent of Democrats would support Clinton as their party’s nominee in November, while the same percentage of Republicans would back Trump.
Furthermore, 72 percent of GOP voters indicated they are “comfortable” with Trump being their party’s nominee, while 75 percent of Democrats said the same of Clinton. Within both parties, 21 percent of voters were not satisfied with Trump or Clinton.
Meanwhile, Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, who is expected to pick up another win Tuesday in West Virginia, continues to outperform Clinton in matchup polls against Trump. The socialist senator leads Trump 50 to 39 percent in the same PPP survey. Among the youngest members of the electorate, Sanders carries a 56-point lead over Trump, compared to the 22-point lead Clinton has over her Republican rival.
Due to Trump’s historically low favorability ratings, PPP also asked voters to indicate whether they have a higher opinion of the billionaire or a series of unpopular things. The survey found that a greater percentage of U.S. voters prefer the Canadian rock band Nickelback to Trump (39/34), the department of motor vehicles (50/40) and jury duty (57/35), among other things.
The PPP survey of 1,222 registered U.S. voters was conducted May 6-9. Results contain a margin of error plus or minus 3.2 percentage points.
