Democratic and Republican presidential front-runners Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump are practically tied in a hypothetical general election matchup, according to a new Rasmussen Reports poll released Monday.
If the 2016 presidential election was held today, 37 percent of likely voters would cast their ballot for Clinton, while 36 percent would do so for Trump, according to the national telephone survey. The poll was conducted among 1,000 likely voters from Dec. 22-23 and has a margin of error of plus or minus 3 percentage points.
Another 22 percent said they prefer "some other candidate," while 5 percent said they are undecided.
The results are quite similar to a poll from October that found Trump with 38 percent support and Clinton with 36 percent, notes The Daily Mail.
Among Democratic respondents in the latest survey, 75 percent back Clinton over her other two competitors, Sen. Bernie Sanders and former Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley, a 5 percent increase from the last poll. On the other side, 63 percent of Republicans support Trump over the other 12 remaining candidates, virtually the same percentage that supported Trump in October.
Men preferred Trump over Clinton by a 10 percent margin, 41 percent to 31 percent, while women preferred Clinton over Trump by a similar margin.
Trump beat Clinton among white voters and senior citizens, but Clinton did better among voters under 40 as well as blacks and other minorities.
The poll also found that most voters, 52 percent, do not believe Clinton was honest during her Benghazi testimony in October. As for Clinton's email scandal, 59 percent of voters think the former secretary of state broke the law by sending and receiving emails containing classified information through a private home-based server.
When asked about Trump's controversial call to temporarily ban all Muslims from entering the U.S., a sizable percent of Republicans and a plurality of all voters said they supported such a plan. Voters also overwhelmingly believe the media is more biased against Trump and Clinton.
