Clinton leads over Trump by 11 points in US presidential race

The June 24-28 poll showed that 45.3 per cent of likely American voters support Clinton while 34.1 per cent support Trump, and another 20.5 per cent support neither.

Clinton’s lead was 14 points on Friday, though she has generally been widening her advantage over the New York real estate magnate since mid-May, when the two were nearly tied. 

The former secretary of state, senator and first lady was bolstered in recent days by endorsements from members of the Republican establishment, including Henry Paulson, Treasury secretary under former President George W. Bush.

Her Democratic rival Bernie Sanders, a US senator from Vermont, said last week he would vote for her to stop Trump even though his campaign said this was not a formal endorsement.

Clinton is struggling to win over Sanders supporters after a hard-fought campaign for the nomination. Critics have assailed her over her handling of emails and a 2012 attack on a US mission in Libya while secretary of state. Trump got a brief boost in the days after the June 12 mass shooting in Florida, coming within nine points of Clinton as he fine-tuned a campaign promise to temporarily ban the entry of Muslim immigrants to shore up national security. 

His level of support so far in June, however, lags behind what his predecessor, Republican White House hopeful Mitt Romney, received in the same period in 2012.

He has sparred with Republican leaders over his off the-cuff rhetoric and lagged behind Clinton’s campaign organization in both size and fundraising, worrying some of his allies. 

Donald Trump promised to renegotiate international trade deals, withdraw from them if he is not satisfied and use executive power to remedy trade disputes with China if he wins the White House.

Trump, speaking at an aluminum scrap metal factory in Monessen, Pennsylvania, said he saw no way to fix the pending 12-nation Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) and that he was willing to withdraw from the decades-old North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) with Canada and Mexico if it was not renegotiated to his satisfaction.