Hillary Clinton
Hillary Diane Rodham ClintonJudge's ruling puts competitive Minnesota House race back on track for November The Memo: Trump searches for path to comeback Overnight Defense: Trump sows confusion over Afghanistan troop levels | Trump tells Iran not to 'f--- around' with US | Supervisor of soldiers who appeared at Democratic convention faces discipline MORE has a 7-point edge over Donald Trump
Donald John TrumpFederal judge shoots down Texas proclamation allowing one ballot drop-off location per county Nine people who attended Trump rally in Minnesota contracted coronavirus Schiff: If Trump wanted more infections 'would he be doing anything different?' MORE in Michigan as they race for the presidency, according to a new poll.
The Democratic nominee leads her Republican rival 44 percent to 37 percent among likely voters in the Suffolk University survey out Thursday.
Ten percent remain undecided in Michigan, which has voted for the Democratic nominee in the past six presidential elections.
Libertarian candidate Gary Johnson
Gary Earl JohnsonPoll: Biden notches 7-point lead ahead of Trump in New Hampshire One down, three more debates to go The Memo: 'Trump fatigue' spells trouble for president MORE ranks third, with 5 percent, followed by Green Party candidate Jill Stein, with 3 percent.
Michigan’s ballot also includes Darrell Castle and Emidio “Mimi” Soltysik, third-party candidates each polling below 1 percent.
“Michigan is a state that [President] Barack Obama
Barack Hussein ObamaTrump calls into Rush Limbaugh's show for two hours World Food Programme's Nobel: Why the UN, NATO and alliances matter in this election Poll shows Biden leading Trump, tight House race in key Nebraska district MORE won by nine points,” said David Paleologos, director of the Suffolk University Political Research Center in Boston, of the 2012 election.
“Hillary Clinton, with a seven-point lead, appears strongest in the manufacturing base of a state that turned from Republican to Democratic after its auto industry began to decline in the 1980s.”
Pollsters found that Michigan’s likely voters have deep concerns over their major-party options, however.
Sixty-three percent say Clinton is untrustworthy, compared with 37 percent who say she is trustworthy.
Fifty-three percent have little trust in Trump, and 47 percent find the GOP presidential nominee honest.
Pollsters additionally found respondents are anxious about the election in general.
Sixty-one percent say the 2016 race alarms them, compared with 20 percent who said it excites and 11 percent whom it bores.
Suffolk University conducted its latest sampling of 500 likely voters in Michigan via telephone interviews Aug. 22–24. It has a 4.4 percentage point margin of error.
Clinton leads Trump by about 7 points in Michigan, according to the latest RealClearPolitics average of polls there.
Clinton’s advantage narrows nationwide, however, leading Trump by 6 points in the same index.