Recent polling from Rasmussen suggests voters are coming to terms with a Trump-Clinton showdown. So how do the candidates fare?
Presidential frontrunners Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump remain all tied up in a hypothetical matchup heading into 2016.
If the 2016 presidential election was held today, 37% of Likely U.S. Voters would vote for Clinton, while 36% would vote for Trump. A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that a sizable 22% would choose some other candidate, while five percent (5%) are undecided. (To see survey question wording, click here.)
These findings are nearly identical to those measured in October when Trump picked up 38% support to Clinton’s 36%.
Seventy-five percent (75%) of Democrats back Clinton, up five points from October. Trump draws support from 63% of Republicans, virtually unchanged from the previous survey. Unaffiliated voters prefer Trump 36% to 25%, but 29% of these voters like some other candidate. These findings also are similar to the October survey.
Clinton and Trump are currently seen as the likely nominees by large majorities of voters in their respective parties.
So most voters seem to think that these two will be the nominee, as the establishment’s panic suggests. This is not really news. What is shocking, however, is that Trump, a candidate who so divides the GOP, does so well against Clinton, who most Democrats accept will be their nominee. If the rest of the GOP comes around and realizes that beating Hillary is paramount, it doesn’t appear that this will be anything resembling a close election at all.
AAN Staff
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