August 07, 2016, 06:46 am
Clinton up by 8 points in national poll
By Kyle Balluck
Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton leads Republican rival Donald Trump by 8 points nationally in a poll released early Sunday.
Clinton has 50 percent support among registered voters in the Washington Post-ABC News poll, compared to 42 percent for Trump.
In July, Clinton led Trump by 4 points, 47 to 43 percent.
Clinton maintains her 8-point lead in the new poll when third-party candidates are factored in. In that scenario, Clinton has 45 percent support, Trump has 37 percent, Libertarian Party nominee Gary Johnson has 8 percent and Green Party nominee Jill Stein has 4 percent.
In last month’s poll, Clinton had a 4-point lead in a four-way race.
Pollsters also found that 74 percent of registered voters disapproved of Trump’s dispute with Khizr and Ghazala Khan, the parents of a Muslim U.S. Army captain who was killed in combat in Iraq.
Sixty percent of respondents said Trump is not honest and trustworthy, while 36 percent said he is.
Sixty percent also said Clinton is not honest and trustworthy, compared to 38 percent who said she has those characteristics.
Clinton also holds a 19-point lead over Trump among college-educated white women, 57 to 38 percent. The candidates split that key demographic last month.
The poll of 814 registered voters, conducted Aug. 1-4, has a margin of error of 4 percentage points.
Clinton leads Trump by 7 points in a RealClearPolitics average of polls, 47.3 to 40.4 percent.
--This report was updated at 8:44 a.m.
http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/presidential-races/290654-clinton-up-by-8-points-in-national-poll
