Poll: GOP Candidates Lead Democrats In Three Key Battleground States
Hillary Clinton has now fallen behind three leading GOP candidates for president in three key states in a new Quinnipiac University poll, Fox News is reporting today. Clinton is polling behind former Florida Governor Jeb Bush, current Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker, and Florida Senator Marco Rubio in Colorado, Iowa, and Virginia. Barack Obama won all three states in both 2008 and 2012. Clinton has been fading in recent polls and faces a growing trust deficit with voters in several recent polls.
Voters surveyed by Quinnipiac in Colorado favored Bush over Clinton by a 41 to 36 percent margin, Walker by a 47 to 38 percent margin, and Rubio by a 46 to 38 percent margin over the former secretary of state. Hillary trails the same three GOP candidates by two to three percent in Virginia, while she is behind by six to eight percent in Iowa.
“The polls were taken July 9-20, of 1,231 Colorado voters; 1,236 Iowa voters; and 1,209 Virginia voters. Each had a margin of error of 2.8 percentage points,” Fox News reported.
Hillary Clinton would lose in those three key states, if the election was held today, the Washington Post reported today, according to the Quinnipiac University poll. The poll also shows Clinton having “strikingly negative favorability ratings among voters in Virginia, Iowa and Colorado” compared to her standings in polls earlier this year.
Clinton has favorable to unfavorable ratings of 35 to 56 percent in Colorado, 33 to 56 percent in Iowa and 41 to 50 percent in Virginia. If those numbers hold, through to November of 2016, and assuming Hillary is the nominee of the Democratic Party, it shows how likely the former secretary of state and First Lady would be to lose all three states to the eventual Republican nominee for president.
In the Quinnipiac poll, 55 percent of voters of Virginia believe that Hillary Clinton is not trustworthy and honest, while 59 percent of Iowa voters and 62 percent of Colorado voters agree that the former secretary of state is not honest and trustworthy.
The same Quinnipiac survey also asked voters to choose between voting for Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders and Vice President Joseph Biden against the same three GOP candidates, Jeb Bush, Scott Walker, and Marco Rubio. In all of those hypothetical match-ups in Colorado, Iowa and Virginia, the Republican candidates lead in all of them by margins of four to 14 percent. The survey tested nine possible general election match-ups between the six candidates in those three states and in all 27 of them, the Republican candidate lead by at least two percent, and in many of them lead over the Democrats by double digit margins.
The latest Quinnipiac University poll is not the only negative polling news for Hillary Clinton. Clinton has 49 percent unfavorable rating in a recent Associated Press-GfK poll, the Inquisitr reported last week. In same poll, only 39 percent had a positive view of the former secretary of state.
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