U.S Republican
presidential candidate Donald Trump has closed in on his rival, Hillary
Clinton, in the latest national tracking poll released over the weekend.
Mr Trump was
far behind Hillary Clinton in all of the major polls in the last two months,
but after his immigration speech last week, new results released by the polls
conducted by Reuters/Ipsos indicate that the U.S presidential race is much
closer now than ever as Donald Trump and Clinton are virtually tied.
According to
the Reuters/Ipsos poll, 40 per cent of likely voters support Mr Trump, while 39
per cent back Ms Clinton for the week of 26 August through 1 September as
Clinton’s lead has declined from an eight-point lead.
Mr Trump’s
popularity among Republicans has also bounced six percentage points to 78 per
cent over the past two weeks although he still lacks the party support held by
Mitt Romney in 2012, who had 85 per cent of support from Republicans at this
stage in the election.
The
Reuters/Ipsos poll is conducted online in English in all 50 states. The latest
poll surveyed 1,804 likely voters over the course of the week; it had a
credibility interval, a measure of accuracy, of three percent.
In a separate
question in the Reuters/Ipsos poll that included alternative-party candidates,
Clinton and Trump were tied at 39 percent. Seven percent supported Libertarian
candidate Gary Johnson, and two percent supported Jill Stein of the Green
Party.
Mr Trumps rise
in the election comes after news that the FBI released details of Clinton’s
interview with investigators regarding emails kept on her private servers – an
issue that has plagued the Clinton campaign from the onset.
According to
the FBI's released documents of the interview;
“Clinton said
she received no instructions or direction regarding the preservation or
production of records from State [Department] during the transition out of her
role as Secretary of State in 2013,”
“However, in
December of 2012, Clinton suffered a concussion and then around the New Year
had a blood clot,” it adds. “Based on her doctor’s advice, she could only work
at state for a few hours a day and could not recall every briefing she
received.”
Some Americans
don't believe the report with most of the opinion that Clinton mishandled
classified information. Mr Trump in his
last week Wednesday's speech, seemed to win back enthusiasm as he vowed to
deport millions of undocumented immigrants during his “first hour” as
president.
Source :
Reuters/ Independent UK
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