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Clinton's support falls by 21 points since July as Trump gains: Poll

​US Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton

US presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, who is running for the Democratic nomination, has lost an incredible 21 percent support over the past two months, a new poll has revealed.   

The latest national ABC News/Washington Post poll, released on Monday, also showed that support for Clinton’s Republican rival, Donald Trump, has, however, surged to 33 percent, which is a 9-point jump since July.  

The poll has also indicated that GOP presidential hopeful Ben Carson, a retired neurosurgeon, also made gains during the same period as support for traditional politicians continues to decline.

Some two-thirds of the Republicans who say they are looking for non-political experience currently support either Trump or Carson, the two non-politicians.

Clinton still leads the Democratic field, but for the first time her support has fallen below 50 percent in ABC/Post polls.

Forty-two percent of Democratic and pro-Democratic voters backed the former secretary of state, but it's a drop of 21 points since the last poll in July.

Meanwhile, independent Senator Bernie Sanders, who is looking for the Democratic nomination, and US Vice President Joe Biden sit at 24 percent and 21 percent support, respectively.

Will Clinton crash and burn?

Biden has not yet announced whether he will run, but analysts say the belief that Clinton will crash and burn makes it almost certain that the vice president will seek the nomination.

“I think without a doubt Biden is going to run for office because he knows that Hillary Clinton is very soon probably not only going to lose all confidence of the American people, but she will lose confidence because she will very soon possibly be indicted for criminal acts,” Scott Bennett, a former US Army psychological warfare officer in San Francisco, California, told Press TV on Saturday.

“She could be indicted for treason, misprision of felony, all sorts of confidential violations of emails and information from her role at the State Department,” he added.

Clinton has come under fire from her Republican rivals since it emerged in March that the former secretary of state used a personal email account on an unsecured private server for official business.


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