"While this is similar to what Gallup found in May, the latest reading is the first since Hillary Clinton effectively clinched the Democratic nomination," the release explained. In May, US Senator Bernie Sanders still had an outside chance of defeating Clinton.
Between mid-April and mid-May, a period in which Trump became the only remaining Republican candidate and subsequently secured enough delegates to win the nomination, confidence of Republicans and Republican-leaning independents in Trump’s presidential mettle fell from 68 percent to 56 percent, the poll revealed.
The poll concluded that the narrowing of each of the two major party's fields to a single presidential candidate seems so far to have done more harm to Republicans' views of the field than to Democrats'.
