A new Bloomberg poll shows Hillary Clinton opening up a double-digit lead nationally over Donald Trump.
Clinton is leading Trump 49 percent to 37 percent among likely voters, with a staggering 55 percent of those polled saying they could “never” vote for the billionaire and reality TV host. Clinton’s negatives are lower, with 43 percent saying they would never vote for her.
“Clinton’s supporters are more enthusiastic than Trump’s and more voters overall see her becoming a more appealing candidate than say that for Trump,” said pollster J. Ann Selzer.
Libertarian candidate Gary Johnson is holding 9 percent of the vote with little publicity at this point. If he can reach 15 percent by fall he will be included in the presidential debates.
Criticism intensified on Trump this month after his charge that a federal judge overseeing fraud cases against Trump University is biased because of the his Mexican heritage. Nearly six in ten likely voters said they were very bothered by those comments.
Another troubling finding for Trump shows 63 percent of women say they could never vote for him. Women make up over half the voting electorate.
“If you can never get the vote of two in three women, who are a majority of voters, that is something that has to change for Trump to emerge victorious,” said Selzer.
After the mass shooting in Orlando, the country is now split evenly on whether the U.S. should ban the sale of all semi-automatic or automatic rifles to civilians, with 50 percent saying no and 48 percent saying yes.