Clinton expands lead over Trump - polls

  • 04/06/2016
Hillary Clinton at a Women for Hillary campaign event at West Los Angeles College on Friday (AAP)
Hillary Clinton at a Women for Hillary campaign event at West Los Angeles College on Friday (AAP)

Democratic presidential contender Hillary Clinton has opened up a double-digit lead over Republican rival Donald Trump, regaining ground after the New York billionaire briefly tied her last month, according to a Reuters/Ipsos poll.

Some 46 percent of likely voters said they supported Clinton, while 35 percent said they supported Trump, and another 19 percent said they would not support either, according to the survey of 1421 people conducted between May 30 and June 3 and released on Friday.

Trump had briefly tied Clinton in support among likely US voters in May, raising expectations for a tight race between the two likely contenders in November's presidential election.

Meanwhile another poll on the hypothetical general-election matchup between the pair shows female voters preferring Clinton to Trump 54 - 30.

The Quinnipiac University poll, conducted from 24 to 30 May, should concern the Republican frontrunner as women both constitute more than half the US voting population and are more likely to vote than men.

Reuters / Newshub.