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On the eve of the U.S. presidential nominating conventions, three new
surveys Sunday showed Democrat Hillary Clinton with a consistent advantage over
Republican Donald Trump, even as American voters view both of them unfavorably.
The edge for Clinton, a former secretary of state seeking to become the first
female U.S. president, ranged from four to seven percentage points over Trump,
the billionaire real estate mogul set to claim the Republican nomination this
week in the midwestern city of Cleveland, Ohio.
The ABC News/Washington Post poll shows Clinton ahead 47 to 43 percent,
while NBC News and The Wall Street Journal pegged the race at 46-41 and CNN/ORC
International at 49-42. But both remain unpopular. The ABC/Post survey said 58 percent of voters
say they are dissatisfied with their choice between Clinton, the wife of former
President Bill Clinton, and Trump, the one-time television reality show
host. It said 64 percent view Trump
unfavorably, with 54 percent looking negatively at Clinton.
But the poll showed Clinton with a wide edge over Trump on whether they
are qualified to be president, with 59 percent seeing her as qualified,
compared to just 37 percent for Trump. Trump heads to the Republican national
convention after naming Indiana Governor Mike Pence, a social conservative with
strong appeal to many traditional Republican voters, as his vice presidential
running mate. Clinton says she will name
her vice presidential pick next Friday, three days before the July 25 start of
the Democratic convention in the eastern city of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Unlikely candidate
U.S. political analysts considered Trump's candidacy something akin to a
joke when he announced 13 months ago that he was running. But Trump, seeking elected office for the
first time, caught the imagination of millions of Republican voters in months
of state-by-state nominating contests.
Trump says he wants to deport 11 million undocumented immigrants living
in the country and to build a wall on the country's southern border with Mexico
to halt the flow of more migrants into the country.
The brash Trump bested 16 other Republican presidential candidates, many
of them seasoned politicians who were current or former senators and
governors. Some have subsequently
endorsed him as the Republican nominee. Republican Party chairman Reince
Priebus said Sunday he believes Trump's nomination acceptance speech Thursday
will give American voters a chance to view him as a plausible U.S. commander in
chief.
Trump's wife Melania and his four adult children are set to speak at the
convention, looking to present the man they know as the best choice to be the
American leader when President Barack Obama leaves office next January after
two terms in the White House. Some Republican officials are also speaking for
Trump, including House of Representatives Speaker Paul Ryan, the party's top
elected official in the United States.
But numerous other Republican leaders are ignoring the Trump victory
party by staying away from the convention, including the party's last two
presidents, George H.W. Bush and his son, George W. Bush, and its last two
presidential nominees, Arizona Senator John McCain and former Massachusetts
Governor Mitt Romney. Of the four, only McCain has endorsed Trump and Romney
has denounced his candidacy.
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