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US 2016 Presidential Elections: Clinton’s Lead over Trump Narrows to 9 Points

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Democrat Hillary Clinton's lead over Republican rival Donald Trump slipped by about five percentage points since mid-June, according to a Reuters/Ipsos poll released on Tuesday, bringing the race for the White House to within nine points.

The poll showed that 44.5% of likely voters supported former secretary of state Clinton while 35.5% backed businessman Trump. That compares with 46.6% support for Clinton and 32.3% for Trump on June 12, a date that marked her widest lead for the month.

In recent days, Trump is focusing much of his energy on the mass shooting in Orlando, Florida by a US-born gunman pledging allegiance to Daesh [the Arabic acronym for the terrorist "ISIS" group]. Trump vowed to ban people from entering the United States from countries with links to terrorism against America or its allies.

In parallel, Hardline national security proposals helped Trump win increased support from voters in the past, including after the shootings in San Bernardino, California and Paris late last year.

For her part, Clinton responded to the Orlando attack by calling for increased intelligence gathering and air strikes on Daesh forces, while warning against demonizing American Muslims. She also criticized Trump's positions on foreign policy and the economy, saying a Trump presidency would be a "disaster."

The June 17-21 poll of 1,100 likely voters has a credibility interval, a measure of accuracy, of 3.4 percentage points.

Source: News Agencies, Edited by website team