Story highlights The poll shows that Clinton leads Trump 50% to 39% on terrorism

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Washington (CNN) Americans trust Hillary Clinton over Donald Trump to handle terrorism, according to a new poll released Tuesday.

The ABC News/Washington Post poll shows that Clinton leads Trump 50% to 39% on who would best handle terrorism, and those surveyed believe she responded better than Trump to the Orlando shooting, 46%-28%, respectively.

Those surveyed also believe presumptive Democratic presidential nominee showed better temperament than her Republican counterpart in response to the attack, 59% to 25%, respectively. Clinton is also favored in confidence that she can handle a similar attack as president compared with Trump (53% to 34%) and that she has better proposals for preventing future attacks (44% to 35%).

The poll reveals that Clinton has solid trust on the issue of handling terrorism among those who preferred Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders for the Democratic nomination, white men and white Catholics, as well as among Democrats in general.

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