Presumptive US Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton has a slender national lead over her Republican rival Donald Trump in the race for the November 2013 election, a new poll shows.
In the Quinnipiac University survey released on Wednesday, the former US secretary of state is leading the New York billionaire by only 2 percentage points, 42 to 40
Meanwhile, Clinton also edges out Trump by 2 percentage points, 39 to 37, with third-party candidates joining the race among likely voters.
In this scenario, Libertarian presidential nominee Gary Johnson has clinched support of 8 percent, while Green Party candidate Jill Stein bags 4 percent.
Voters are very dissatisfied with the climate surrounding the 2016 presidential campaign, pollsters found.
Sixty-one percent say the 2016 race for the White House has “increased the level of hatred and prejudice in the US,” while only 34 percent say it has made “no impact.”
Sixty-seven percent of those…