Voter Guide: Approval of Trump and Clinton has reached a new low
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Popular opinion of both presidential candidates has reached an 'unprecedented' low.
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How many people like Trump and Clinton? Pretty much none.
Disdain for Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton has reached 'unprecedented' levels, according to a new Monmouth University poll.
Clinton's approval rating is at 34 percent. Trump's is only at 26.
Only 2 percent of voters see both candidates favorably. Since 1984, the voters in an election have never had a favorable opinion of both candidates lower than 5 percent.
It seems like a significant number of voters are backing a presidential candidate about whom they cannot say anything positive."
Patrick Murray
director of the Monmouth University Polling InstituteDonald Trump pipes in on sexting scandal
Longtime Clinton aide Huma Abedin announced she was separating from husband and former congressman Anthony Weiner after another sexting scandal.
Donald Trump weighed in on the scandal in a statement Monday, suggesting the incident was a national security issue and that Hillary Clinton was responsible.
“I only worry for the country in that Hillary Clinton was careless and negligent in allowing Weiner to have such close proximity to highly classified information,” Trump said. “Who knows what he learned and who he told? It’s just another example of Hillary Clinton’s bad judgment."
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Here is the current state of play, from my piece looking at the Monmouth survey. https://t.co/kiduzn5s6R pic.twitter.com/m1rfMRFn8B
— Philip Bump (@pbump) August 29, 2016
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This story was originally published August 30, 2016 at 5:30 AM with the headline "Voter Guide: Approval of Trump and Clinton has reached a new low."