US voters 'scared' of Trump, Clinton: Poll
About half of US voters are “scared” that presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump might be elected as the US president while more than third are afraid about Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton becoming president.
Nearly half of respondents, 47 percent, said they were "scared" now that Trump is the presumptive GOP nominee, while 26 percent said they were "hopeful," according to an NBC News/Survey Monkey poll of voters released Tuesday.
The poll found that 21 percent said they were angry, 14 percent said they were excited and 16 percent were surprised.
More people are scared than hopeful about Clinton becoming president as well. Thirty-five percent reported being "scared" if Clinton were to win the Democratic nomination, while 29 percent would be hopeful, 22 percent would be angry, 16 percent would be excited and 7 percent would be surprised.
Clinton leads Trump by just 5 points, 49 to 44 percent, in a hypothetical general election match-up. Democratic candidate Bernie Sanders, who has vowed to fight until the party's national convention in July, leads Trump by 13 points, 53 to 40 percent.
Polls show that both Trump and Clinton are more unpopular with voters than the candidates in any of the past 10 White House matchups, going back four decades.
“We have an explosive environment with two extremely negative candidates,” said Ed Goeas, a Republican pollster. “This is going to be a race to the bottom. It’s who can drive up the negatives the most.”
Trump was viewed unfavorably by 57 percent of voters nationally in a CNN/ORC poll released this month, down from 67 percent in March, but he is still registering historic levels of unpopularity.
Clinton was viewed unfavorably by 49 percent in the recent poll, an improvement from 56 percent in March.
“This election is not going to be about issues; it’s going to be a race about character and temperament between two of the most unpopular political candidates in history,” said Steve Schmidt, who managed Senator John McCain’s 2008 US presidential race.
Trump is also deeply unpopular with Hispanics and Muslims after labeling Mexican migrants criminals and calling for a ban on Muslims entering the US. A CBS News poll in April measured his unpopularity among Hispanics at 82 percent.
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