HRC leads Trump by 9 in Detroit News Poll
Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton has widened her lead over Republican Donald Trump in Michigan as 3-in-5 likely voters say the New York businessman is not qualified to be president, according to a new poll conducted for The Detroit News and WDIV-TV.
Clinton led Trump 41 percent to 32 percent in the statewide survey of 600 likely voters conducted Saturday through Monday following Clinton’s formal nomination at last week’s Democratic National Convention.
The poll contains many troubling signs for Trump’s White House campaign, including a “shocking” lead for Clinton in the Republican strongholds of west and southwest Michigan, pollster Richard Czuba said.
Sixty-one percent of likely general election voters said Trump is ill-prepared to be the nation’s commander-in-chief. The figure grows to 67 percent among women, a group with whom Trump performs poorly. Clinton has a commanding 21-percentage-point lead among female voters.
“He’s sitting in the cellar right now, and they’re going to have to do something to dramatically turn this around,” said Czuba, president of the Glengariff Group Inc. polling firm. “If I were a Republican running on this ticket right now, I’d be beyond nervous.”
In west and southwest Michigan, Clinton is ahead of Trump by 5 and 6 percentage points, respectively, according to the poll, which had a margin of error of plus-minus 4 percentage points.
Indiana Gov. Mike Pence’s daylong trip to Kent County last Thursday — a week after the Republican National Convention — was “an illustration that they know they have troubles,” Czuba said.
“If your vice presidential nominee is spending an entire day in west Michigan after the convention,” the Republican region is not locked up, he said.
Democrats are boasting a stronger presence in the changing political culture of Grand Rapids. On Friday, Democratic vice presidential candidate Tim Kaine is scheduled to open a coordinated campaign office in Grand Rapids.
Some jittery GOP voters say they won’t vote for Trump and are throwing their support behind Johnson, the former Republican New Mexico governor who gets 7.5 percent support in the telephone operator survey.
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