A majority of respondents said they would vote for Hillary Clinton, the presumptive Democratic nominee. | Getty Clinton surges to 12-point lead in WaPo poll

Hillary Clinton currently holds a double-digit lead over Donald Trump nationally, according to a Washington Post-ABC News poll released Sunday.

If the election were held today, 51 percent of respondents said they would vote for Clinton, the presumptive Democratic nominee, and 39 percent said they would vote for Trump.


Respondents overwhelmingly said that Clinton is more qualified to be president and has a better personality and temperament than Trump.

The poll comes about a month after Trump went after a federal judge for his Mexican heritage, suggesting he couldn’t properly oversee a case on Trump’s defunct real-estate program Trump University, and two weeks after the nation’s deadliest mass shooting at a nightclub in Orlando, Florida. The polling preceded the Brexit results.

A plurality of respondents (46 percent) thought Clinton responded to the Orlando attacks in a more appropriate way. Twenty-eight percent of respondents thought Trump did a better job.

There was also a significant feeling of anxiety among respondents — 70 percent said they were anxious about a Trump presidency, compared to 27 percent who said they would be comfortable with Trump in the Oval Office.

A majority of respondents aren’t looking at a third alternative, either. Asked whether they would consider a third-party candidate, 78 percent of respondents said no. Of those who said “yes,” 12 percent said they would consider someone other than Libertarian Party nominee Gary Johnson (2 percent) and Green Party candidate Jill Stein.

The poll was conducted June 20-23 and surveyed 1,001 adults throughout the country. The margin of error is plus or minus 3.5 percentage points.