Clinton Pulls Ahead of Trump in US Surveys

A collection of U.S. political surveys this week shows Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton is pulling ahead of Republican challenger Donald Trump five months before November's national election. Clinton, a former U.S. secretary of state seeking to become the country's first female president, holds an average 5.6-percentage-point lead in several polls over the brash real estate mogul who overtook a large Republican field of candidates, many of them current or former...

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