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The bump for
Clinton followed the Democratic National Convention in
Philadelphia last week at which Clinton and her supporters
painted an optimistic portrait of America, and came amid
controversy over Trump's comments about the parents of a slain
Muslim U.S. soldier.
About 43 percent of likely voters favor Clinton, 35 percent
favor Trump, and 9 percent picked "Other," according to the July
28-Aug. 1 online poll of 1,289 likely voters. The poll had a
credibility interval of 3 percentage points.
Trump has faced a barrage of criticism in recent days from
political allies as well as opponents after he criticized the
parents of U.S. Army Captain Humayun Khan, who was killed in
Iraq in 2004.
The father, Khizr Khan, had harsh words for Trump at the
Democratic convention where he spoke on Thursday night, saying
the 70-year-old businessman and former reality TV star had
"sacrificed nothing and no one" and railing against his calls to
ban Muslim immigrants.
Trump responded saying Khan "viciously attacked" him, and
suggested the man was repeating lines fed to him by the Clinton
campaign.
New Jersey Governor Chris Christie, who dropped out of the
Republican presidential primary race and endorsed Trump, said on
Tuesday that Trump's criticisms of the Khans was
"inappropriate." House Republican Richard Hanna of New York said
it was "not enough to simply denounce his (Trump's) comments,"
and said he would support former Secretary of State Clinton
instead.
Trump had a short-lived bump in the polls after the Republican
National Convention in Cleveland in late July, when Reuters
polling showed him slightly ahead of Clinton for the first time
since May.
(Editing by Richard Valdmanis)
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