Trump Defies Historical Trends For GOP Nominee: Trails Among High Earners

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks during a campaign rally, Monday, July 25, 2016, in Winston-Salem, N.C. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks during a campaign rally, Monday, July 25, 2016, in Winston-Salem, N.C. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
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Donald Trump continues to defy the conventions of Republican presidential nominees, this time by polling behind Democratic opponent Hillary Clinton among high-income Americans in a new poll.

Among likely voters with household incomes of $100,000 or more, Trump falls four points behind Clinton in a two-way election contest, 46-42, according to the Bloomberg Politics Purple Slice poll released today.

Republican candidates have historically had success with voters with household incomes of $100,000, winning or tying among those voters since 1996, according to data from the Roper Center for Public Opinion Research at Cornell University.

The trend of high-income voters choosing the Republican nominee also extends from 1976-1992, according to the Roper Center.

With third-party candidates included, Clinton maintains her four-point lead, 41-37, with Libertarian Gary Johnson polling at 9 percent and Green Party candidate Jill Stein at 2 percent.

However, high-income Americans consider Trump to be preferred candidate for their personal investments, choosing the businessman over Clinton by nine points, 45-36.

The Bloomberg Politics poll was conducted online by Purple Strategies on Sept. 16-19 among 600 likely general election, all with household incomes of $100,000 or more. The margin of error for the results is plus or minus four percent.

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  1. However, high-income Americans consider Trump to be preferred candidate for their personal investments, choosing the businessman over Clinton by nine points, 45-36.

    Just because

  2. I know, right?

    I am guessing that the thinking goes, if there is any thinking involved with those respondents, that Trump will be ineffectual, but will sign Ryan’s budgets into law, which are HUGE tax cuts for the rich…even bigger than Trump’s.

    But its a VERY small poll…only 600 people, and its from Purple Strategies which is Alex Castellanos’ group.

  3. Vote off-shore bank account, not country…

  4. Don’t get this at all. I would expect worldwide markets to respond very negatively to a Trump win. I guess “if you’re do smart why ain’t you rich” doesn’t hold true any more.

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