On the eve of Republican National Convention, Hillary Clinton maintains a five-point national lead over Donald Trump, a new NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll revealed Sunday.
The convention is likely to name Trump as Republican nominee for November 8 presidential election but several GOP leaders have expressed reservations over business tycoon’s ability to unite the party. Polls numbers may add to anxieties over Republican prospects in the political season, which has seen Trump’s rhetoric and unconventional contrast strikingly with what the party traditionally stands for on a host of issues.
Democratic presumptive nominee Clinton, on the other hand, could find the poll numbers a relief from fresh criticism of her private email server use.
She leads Trump 46 percent to 41 percent in a poll that finds both candidates facing challenges from trust issues to positions on various issues.
According to findings, Clinton has the advantage among African Americans (84 to 7 percent), voters ages 18-29 (55 to 32 percent) and women (52 to 37 percent).
Trump, meanwhile, is ahead among whites (50 to 37 percent) and men (46 to 39 percent), and the two candidates are tied among independents (36 percent each).
In a four-way ballot test – including Libertarian nominee Gary Johnson and the Green Party’s Jill Stein – Clinton gets 41 percent, Trump 35 percent, Johnson 11 percent, and Stein 6 percent.
