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Hillary Clinton has double-digit lead over Donald Trump in new poll

By Cox Media Group National Content Desk
June 26, 2016
Presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton leads GOP rival Donald Trump by more than 13 percentage points in a new poll.

According to the June 20-24 Reuters/Ipsos poll, 46.6 percent of likely voters backed Clinton, compared with 33.3 percent for Trump and 20.1 percent for neither candidate.

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Although the gap between the candidates narrowed to 9 percentage points immediately following the deadly Orlando, Florida, nightclub shooting, Clinton's lead widened as news broke about Trump's campaign deficit. According to a Federal Election Commission filing on Monday, Trump's campaign has $1.3 million in the bank. The number lags significantly behind Clinton's campaign, which has $42 million in the bank as of May 31, according to FEC filings.

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Reuters reported that 1,201 likely voters participated in the online poll, which has a 3.3 percent margin of error.

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