Republican presidential front runner Donald Trump stands near his wife Melania Trump as he speaks to supporters and the media at Trump Tower in Manhattan following his victory in the Indiana primary on May 03. | Getty Poll: 6 in 10 dislike or hate Trump and Clinton

The two candidates likely to square off in November's general election are both disliked or even hated by roughly six in 10 Americans, according to the results of the latest weekly NBC News/SurveyMonkey tracking poll out Tuesday.

Asked their feelings about Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump, just 17 percent said they admired the former secretary of state, while 10 percent said the same of the reality TV star-turned-presumptive Republican nominee. About one in four said they like Clinton or Trump but do not admire them. Another 37 percent and 39 percent said they dislike but do not hate Clinton and Trump, respectively, while 21 percent said they hate Clinton and 24 percent said they hate Trump.


The poll released Tuesday would not appear to be an outlier in that respect. An NBC News/Wall Street Journal survey released earlier this week found that both candidates are the least popular in the history of the poll. Clinton's favorability rating in that poll is a net -20 points (34 percent to 54 percent), while Trump's is even lower, at -29 points (29 percent to 58 percent). Those figures are actually improvements of four and 12 points, respectively, for both Clinton and Trump.

And in the latest Washington Post/ABC News poll released Sunday, 57 percent each said they had an unfavorable opinion of Clinton and Trump. Of the 57 percent, 46 percent said they had a strongly unfavorable opinion of Clinton and 45 percent said the same of Trump.

Clinton's slim four-point lead over Trump among registered voters remains largely unchanged from the previous week's NBC News/SurveyMonkey tracking poll, at 47 percent to 43 percent. In the last poll, Clinton's lead over Trump narrowed to 48 percent to 45 percent.

The poll was conducted online from May 16-22, surveying a national sample of 16,710 adults, of which 14,513 are registered voters, with an overall margin of error of plus or minus 1 percentage point.

