http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/presidential-races/278366-poll-trump-has-2-point-lead-over-clintonMay 02, 2016, 11:00 am
Trump leads Clinton by 2 points in Rasmussen poll
By Rebecca Savransky
Donald Trump leads Hillary Clinton by 2 points in a head-to-head matchup, according to a new Rasmussen Reports telephone survey.
Trump gets 41 percent to Clinton's 39 percent in the new poll.
This poll differs from recent polling, which all show Clinton, the Democratic presidential front-runner, holding a lead over her Republican counterpart. According to the RealClearPolitics average of polls, Clinton has a 7.3-point lead over Trump, 47.4 to 40.1 percent.
Just last week, Clinton and Trump tied in another Rasmussen poll in which each won 38 percent. In that survey, voters were also allowed to answer that they would stay home and not vote for either candidate.
According to the latest Rasmussen poll, 15 percent of respondents would prefer some other candidate and 5 percent were undecided.
The recent poll also found that Trump does twice as well among Democrats as Clinton does among Republicans in a matchup between the two candidates.
Trump takes 15 percent support of Democrats in a general election matchup between Trump and Clinton, but Clinton takes just 8 percent of GOP voters.
Trump has 73 percent support of Republicans, and Clinton has 77 percent support of Democrats in a matchup.
The survey was conducted from April 27 to 28 among 1,000 likely voters. The margin of error is 3 percentage points.
