Support From Women, Minorities Gives Clinton Lead Over Trump In New Poll

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Hillary Clinton leads Donald Trump by seven points among registered voters nationally, according to a Monmouth University poll released Monday.

The survey found that 47 percent of registered voters back the former secretary of state, while 40 percent support the real estate magnate. Clinton’s edge expanded slightly to 49 percent over Trump’s 41 percent among likely voters.

While respondents were deeply divided across partisan lines, with 87 percent of Democrats backing Clinton and 84 percent supporting Trump, they were also sharply split by gender and ethnicity. Clinton had a 27-point led among women (57 percent to 30 percent). She also had a wide margin of support among black, Latino and Asian voters (72 percent to 17 percent), compared to Trump’s lead with white voters (49 percent to 38 percent).

As Patrick Murray, director of the Monmouth University Polling Institute, said in a statement, “All signs point to 2016 turning out the most polarized electorate in memory.”

This is the first national poll the institute has conducted since Trump cleared the Republican field, emerging as the presumptive nominee.

The Monmouth poll is the latest in a series of early national head-to-head polls that have shown Clinton holding an edge over her Republican opponent. These latest results are consistent with NBC News and Bloomberg polls released in the last week that showed Clinton leading Trump by several percentage points.

Monmouth surveyed 803 registered voters by telephone from June 15-19 for the poll. The margin of error was plus or minus 3.5 percentage points.

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