Clinton’s Lead Grows One Point in a Head-to-Head Matchup Without Third Party Candidates
Clinton, Trump Run Nearly Even on Voter Enthusiasm
Trump Holds Advantage on the Economy, Clinton Leads on All Other Issues
SEPT. 21, 2016 – Ahead of the first presidential debate next week, Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton leads Republican nominee Donald Trump by six points among likely voters in a new NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll.
In a four-way horserace, Clinton gets support from 43 percent of likely voters and Trump gets 37 percent, while Libertarian nominee Gary Johnson is at 9 percent and the Green Party’s Jill Stein is at 3 percent.
With just Clinton and Trump head-to-head, Clinton’s advantage grows to seven points: 48 percent to 41 percent. To note, this is the NBC/WSJ poll’s first general-election poll of likely voters in the 2016 race.
Seventy-eight percent of Trump’s voters and 75 percent of Clinton’s voters say they are highly interested in November’s general election. 68 percent of Clinton voters respond that they will “definitely” vote for her, compared with 66 percent of Trump supporters who say that about the New York businessman.
Trump holds an advantage with voters when it comes to the economy: 46 percent of registered voters believe he is better on the issue compared to 41 percent for Clinton on the issue. However, on every other issue tested, Clinton leads: on being in charge of nuclear weapons (51 percent to 25 percent), on being a good commander-in-chief (48 percent to 33 percent), on dealing with immigration (50 percent to 39 percent) and on terrorism and homeland security (44 percent to 43 percent).
Read more from the latest poll, including how many voters still want change and President Obama’s job-approval rating: http://nbcnews.to/2cSfLp3.
The NBC/WSJ poll was conducted Sept. 16-19 of 1,000 registered voters – by both landline and cell phone interviews – and it has an overall margin of error of plus-minus 3.1 percentage points. Among the 922 likely voters the survey interviewed, the margin of error is plus-minus 3.2 percentage points.
