Clinton's lead over Trump narrows to 9 points: Poll
A new opinion poll shows that presumptive US Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton has lost her double-digit lead over rival Republican Donald Trump for the first time in nearly two weeks.
According to the poll released by Reuters/Ipsos on Friday, US voters, between June 27 and July 1, chose the former secretary of state with a 9.4 percentage point lead over the New York businessman, down from an 11.2 point lead in a previous five-day poll that ended on June 28.
43.9 percent of US voters now support Clinton, compared to 34.5 percent for Trump. Another 21.7 percent of the voters supported neither candidate. Clinton had kept a double-digit lead in the rolling poll since June 20.
The poll was conducted among 1,080 likely voters and had a 3.5-percentage measure of accuracy.
The former secretary of state enjoys more popularity among men and women, young people and minorities, college graduates, and people who earn incomes both lower and higher than the national average.
This is while the majority of whites, people with lower levels of education, older Americans and retirees back Trump.
Over the past two weeks, Clinton had gained a major lead as much as 14 percent as Republican leaders slammed Trump for his opposition to international trade deals and a range of racial comments about Hispanics and Muslims.
In a surprise move to narrow the lead, Trump has retracted two of the many outrageous remarks he made during the primary campaign.
Last week, he took back his suggested ban on all Muslims entering the US, saying he only meant the ban for a group of suspected terrorists.
He also said that if elected president, he was not going to deport all illegal immigrants from the country. However, deporting millions of migrants and creating a wall on the border with Mexico to prevent them from coming back had shaped most of his immigration policies.
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