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Trump supporters will say the Post survey is biased. The Post’s coverage of the Trump campaign has been so relentlessly hostile that the candidate has banned it from future events. Post reporters had their press credentials revoked, adding it to a growing list of media outlets banished from the Republican candidate’s campaign.

The Wall Street Journal is no big fan of Trump either, however. The Journal’s stable of right-wing columnists regularly bewail Trump’s lack of knowledge, leadership and self-control. Peggy Noonan, who once worked for Ronald Reagan, recently wrote that Trumpites who compare him to the former president are “idiots.”

While more favourable to Trump, the Journal poll nonetheless produced some bracing figures on the hurdles he faces in winning the November election. In essence, everyone but white people are against him: Clinton has a 17-point lead among women; a 30-point lead in urban areas; and a 57-point lead among non-whites in general. Only 22% of Hispanics say they support the Republican candidate, who has pledged to build a wall on the Mexican border.

Mr. Trump, according to the Journal, leads only among whites, especially men.

The Post poll finds a similar well of dislike for the New York businessman. Even among fellow Republicans, it says, nearly a third say he is unqualified for office. Thirty percent of voters who backed Republicans in the primary say they won’t support Trump, and 62% want other GOP leaders to denounce him when he makes outlandish remarks.

On Friday, noted conservative columnist George F. Will said he was leaving the Republican party after 40 years because of Trump, and urged other Republicans to “make sure he loses.”

The party should “grit their teeth for four years and win the White House [in 2020],” said Will, who had earlier urged Republican donors to withhold cash from Trump.

National Post