The gap between former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump has shrunk by 8 percentage points since just last month, according to the latest Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll.
Clinton, the Democratic presidential front-runner, leads the New York billionaire 46 percent to 43 percent in the newest survey of registered voters, putting Trump within the poll’s margin of error against her.
The same survey taken in April showed Clinton carrying an 11-point edge over Trump, 50 percent to 39 percent. Meanwhile, her Democratic opponent, Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, leads Trump by 15 percentage points.
Clinton does far better among minorities than Trump, leading the billionaire 88 percent to 9 percent among African Americans and 68 percent to 20 percent percent among Latinos. The former first lady also carries a 13-point edge among women and 23-point edge among millennials, ages 18 to 34.
Trump has a significant advantage among whites (52-36) and men (49-40), while also leading Clinton among independents (42-37) and seniors (52-41).
Both candidates, however, continue to struggle with historically low favorability ratings. While 34 percent of voters view Clinton favorably, 54 percent do not.
But Trump’s favorability rating is even worse. Only 29 percent of voters have a positive opinion of the billionaire, compared to nearly 60 percent who have a negative one.
The NBC News/WSJ survey of 1,000 registered U.S. voters was conducted May 15-19. Results contain a margin of error plus or minus 3.1 percentage points.
