Daily Times

NEW YORK: Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton held a 6 point lead over Republican rival Donald Trump, according to a poll released on Friday – the day after she formally accepted her party’s nomination for the coming elections.

Nearly 41% of likely voters favour Clinton, 35% favour Trump, and 25% picked ‘Other’, according to the new July 25-29 online poll of 1,043 likely voters, which overlapped with the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia. The poll has a credibility interval of 4 percentage points.

The presidential tracking poll reflects a slight change of wording from previous surveys, replacing the “Neither/Other” option given to respondents with just ‘Other’. Former Secretary of State Clinton delivered an upbeat keynote address at the Democratic convention on Thursday night as she became the first woman to accept the presidential nomination from a major party.

In the biggest speech of her more than 25-year-old career in the public eye, Clinton cast herself as a steady leader at a ‘moment of reckoning’ for the country and contrasted her character with what she described as Trump’s dangerous and volatile temperament.

The 70-year-old New York businessman and former reality TV host, Trump, has never held political office and responded on Thursday that “Hillary’s vision is a borderless where working people have no power, no jobs and no safety.”

A separate survey that provided respondents with the option to choose from Clinton, Trump, Libertarian candidate Gary Johnson and Green Party candidate Jill Stein has Clinton and Trump tied at 37 percentage points.

Of all the alternative party candidates, Johnson came in third with 5 percentage points, followed by Stein at 1 percentage point, according to the July 25-29 survey of 1,426 likely voters, which has a credibility interval of 3 percentage points.