AP Photo Monmouth poll shows Clinton with 6-point national lead over Trump

Hillary Clinton heads into Election Day with a 6-point lead over Donald Trump, according to a national Monmouth University poll released Monday morning.

Clinton garners 50 percent support among likely voters, followed by Trump at 44 percent, Libertarian nominee Gary Johnson at 4 percent and Green Party candidate Jill Stein at 1 percent, with an additional 1 percent undecided.


On the penultimate day of the presidential election, Clinton and Trump still have high negatives. Fifty-five percent view Trump unfavorably, while 54 percent view Clinton unfavorably.

Among registered voters, only 27 percent are satisfied with Trump as the Republican nominee. Fifty-four percent said they would have preferred another nominee “a great deal,” and 12 percent would have preferred a different nominee “just somewhat.”

Similarly, only about a third of registered voters are satisfied with Clinton representing the Democratic Party. Nearly 50 percent would have preferred a different nominee “a great deal” and 10 percent “just somewhat.”

A majority (57 percent) of registered voters also believe Clinton will be elected president Tuesday. An overwhelming 87 percent said either Clinton or Trump will win the election “fair and square,” while 9 percent said the victor will have won mainly “because the system is rigged.”

The Monmouth University survey of 748 likely voters was conducted Nov. 3-6 via landlines and cellphones. It has a margin of error of plus or minus 3.6 percentage points. The sample of 802 registered voters has a margin of error of 3.5 percentage points.