Hillary Clinton has emerged from the FBI Investigation into her email practices as secretary of state a wounded candidate with a large and growing majority of voters saying she cannot be trusted, according to the latest New York Times/CBS News poll.
As Mrs Clinton prepares to accept the Democratic Party’s Nomination at the convention in Philadelphia this month, she will confront an electorate in which 67 percent of voters say she is not honest and trustworthy. That number is up five percentage points from a CBS News poll conducted last month, before the F.B.I. released its findings.
Mrs. Clinton’s six-percentage-point lead over the presumptive Republican nominee, Donald J. Trump, in a CBS News poll last month has evaporated. The two candidates are now tied in a general election matchup, the new poll indicates, with each receiving the support of 40 percent of voters.
Mr Trump is also distrusted by a large number of voters – 62 percent, but that number has stayed constant despite increased scrutiny on his business record and falsehoods in his public statements and Twitter messages.
But Mrs Clinton’s shifting and inaccurate explanations of her email practices at the state Department appear to have resonated more deeply with the electorate.
Last week, the F.B.I. director, James B. Comey, recommended no criminal harges filed against Mrs. Clinton over handling of classified information on a private email server, but he called her actions “extremely careless”.
Source: New York Times
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