A majority of Americans hold an unfavorable view of Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump and his Democratic rival, Hillary Clinton, and consider them dishonest and untrustworthy, a new poll shows.
According to the NBC News/SurveyMonkey Weekly Election Tracking Poll, released on Tuesday, the former secretary of state is viewed negatively by 59 percent of voters and the New York billionaire by 64 percent.
A majority of voters chose none when asked to choose qualities that describe each candidate, including honesty, values and temperament.
However, 42 percent of voters stated Clinton had the “personality and temperament to serve” as president. Only 17 percent said the same for Trump.
Only 16 percent said Trump is honest and trustworthy and merely 11 percent said the same of Clinton.
According to the poll, Clinton leads Trump by 9 points in the run-up to the 2016 US presidential race.
She is favored by 50 percent of likely voters to Trump’s 41…