Thread: Trump leads Clinton by 2 points in Rasmussen poll

May 02, 2016, 11:00 am

Trump leads Clinton by 2 points in Rasmussen poll

By Rebecca Savransky

Donald Trump leads Hillary Clinton by 2 points in a head-to-head matchup, according to a new Rasmussen Reports telephone survey.

Trump gets 41 percent to Clinton's 39 percent in the new poll.

This poll differs from recent polling, which all show Clinton, the Democratic presidential front-runner, holding a lead over her Republican counterpart. According to the RealClearPolitics average of polls, Clinton has a 7.3-point lead over Trump, 47.4 to 40.1 percent.

Just last week, Clinton and Trump tied in another Rasmussen poll in which each won 38 percent. In that survey, voters were also allowed to answer that they would stay home and not vote for either candidate.

According to the latest Rasmussen poll, 15 percent of respondents would prefer some other candidate and 5 percent were undecided.

The recent poll also found that Trump does twice as well among Democrats as Clinton does among Republicans in a matchup between the two candidates.

Trump takes 15 percent support of Democrats in a general election matchup between Trump and Clinton, but Clinton takes just 8 percent of GOP voters.

http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/...d-over-clinton

Good news! Hope it's right and I think it is. When Trump wins the nomination and focuses on general election voters, I believe he'll win by large margins, he'll not only unite the Republican Party, he'll unite the country. All Americans want our country fixed, we just have different views on how to do it. Trump will speak in plain honest language how to do it, ways most of us here already know are essential because we've spent so many years studying the problems, and Trump knows it by instinct and business experience, and together we can spread that message far and wide and he'll win in a landslide.