Clinton's Lead Over Trump Grows in Fox News Poll
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By Nick Gass | 06/29/16 06:14 PM EDT
Hillary Clinton opened up a 6-point lead over Donald Trump in the latest Fox News poll released Wednesday evening, continuing a string of recent surveys showing the presumptive Democratic nominee out in front of her Republican rival.
In a head-to-head matchup, Clinton earned 44 percent to Trump's 38 percent, while 7 percent volunteered that they would vote for someone else, 5 percent said they would not vote and 5 percent said they did not know who they would choose.
In the previous Fox News survey conducted earlier in June, Clinton's lead was only 3 points, 42 percent to 39 percent. But apart from a Quinnipiac University national poll released earlier Wednesday that showed him behind by only 2 points, Trump has trailed by similar margins in other recent surveys, including a f5-point deficit in the NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll and a more pronounced 12-point gulf in the ABC News/Washington Post poll, which the Manhattan businessman derided as "dirty" because the sample included 10 percent more Democrats than Republicans.
Matched against Libertarian nominee Gary Johnson in the latest Fox survey, Clinton earned 41 percent, Trump took 36 percent, while the former governor of New Mexico drew 10 percent, all roughly at the same levels of support as the Fox News poll conducted earlier in June.
Neither major party candidate inspired much confidence from voters, as 48 percent said they were confident that Clinton would do right by the United States and 51 percent said they did not think so. Even fewer people, 42 percent, said they were confident in Trump's decision-making for the country, while 58 percent indicated a lack of confidence to some degree.
Asked a series of questions about personal characteristics, 45 percent said Clinton is someone who cares about people like them, while 51 percent disagreed with that sentiment, about the same as when the question was last asked in May. But for Trump, 35 percent in June said they saw empathy from him, down from 42 percent in May. Neither candidate is seen as trustworthy, while Trump is seen as more hot-headed and obnoxious than Clinton, who is seen as more sensible, experienced and intelligent.
The poll was conducted June 26-28, surveying a random national sample of 1,017 registered voters via landlines and cellphones. The overall margin of error is plus or minus 3 percentage points.
