Trump equals Hillary in popularity, almost

Clinton back on campaign trail after pneumonia scare

Washington, Sept. 16: A surging Donald Trump, the Republican presidential nominee, has reduced popularity gap with his Democratic rival Hillary Clinton to almost ties, according to a latest poll.

Clinton was now leading New York-based business tycoon by just one per cent among likely voters, said the national poll by Fox News.

In a head-to-head match, Trump (46 per cent) leads Clinton (45 per cent) by one percentage point.

This is the first poll which was conducted after the 9/11 anniversary incident in which Clinton had to leave the New York memorial due to illness. She was diagnosed with pneumonia. After a few days of rest, she resumed her campaign on Thursday.

But Clinton’s return to the White House campaign trial was off to an unpleasant start when a man started yelling at her from the crowd during an event in North Carolina on Friday. She sought to regain the momentum lost to Trump during her battle with pneumonia, especially in the country’s key battleground states. But the event was disrupted when a man began yelling at Clinton, according to the Daily

Mail. ‘You suck!’ he told the Democratic presidential candidate.

Meanwhile, Clinton has accused Trump of fostering ugliness and bigotry by refusing to acknowledge President Barack Obama was born in the US. But the Trump Campaign in a statement said “he (Trump) believes Obama was born in the US.”