More voters trust Clinton on health care

Democrat Hillary Clinton leads Republican Donald Trump by 7 points nationwide, according to a Suffolk University/USA Today poll of voters likely to cast ballots in the November presidential election.

The remaining support is scattered among other candidates, leading with Libertarian Gary Johnson at 7 percent, or are undecided, also 7 percent.

National polls have tightened since the Democratic National Convention in July, but Clinton maintains leads in nearly all battleground states.

Clinton has led in almost all recent polls.

But if you look just at registered voters, the new poll actually shows Clinton’s image is about as bad as Trump’s, with 38 percent having a favorable impression and 59 percent unfavorable, compared with a 37/60 split for Trump.

On the basic pocketbook question, the poll found that 36 percent of voters feared their own access to affordable care would get worse if Republican Donald Trump is elected, versus 24 percent who anxious their own situations would worsen under Clinton.

The GOP candidate’s campaign have attributed this to “undercover” voters who refrain from declaring their loyalties to traditional pollsters, but who could help the billionaire win on the actual day.

However, in the right-leaning Rasmussen polls, Clinton for the first time is seen trailing Trump, albeit by just one percentage point.

As for the future of Medicare, 53% of voters said they were trusting of Clinton, while 38% trusted Trump.

In Pennsylvania, Clinton is ahead at 46 percent while Trump got 43 percent. Trump is maintaining leads in less populated and more rural areas such as the northeast (42 to 35 percent), the northwest (64 to 24 percent) and central Pennsylvania (50 to 31 percent).

The other senator from Arizona, Republican Jeff Flake, who is not up for reelection this year, has declined so far to endorse Trump. It has a margin of error of plus or minus 4.6 points for registered voters, and plus or minus 5.6 points for likely voters.

Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump speaks at a campaign rally in Phoenix, Arizona, U.S., August 31, 2016.

An analysis by Bloomberg found that the Hillary Victory Fund allowed hundreds of donors who had maxed out their donations to the Democratic National Committee to give more money through the joint fundraising agreement. Among likely voters, Clinton had 45 percent compared with 42 percent for Trump.

Offering insight into her foreign policy, Clinton said “we can’t cozy up to dictators, we have to stand up to them”.

More than one in four – 27 percent – of the registered voters had not decided on which candidate to support.