New AJC Poll Shows Hillary Clinton With Small Lead Over Donald Trump in Georgia

A new AJC poll shows that Hillary Clinton is leading Donald Trump in Georgia in this year's race to the White House.

The poll, released Friday, shows Clinton with 44 percent of the vote, compared to Trump's 40 percent. Libertarian Gary Johnson has cracked double digits with 11 percent, while the Green Party's Jill Stein has 2 percent.

The last AJC poll, commissioned in May, had Trump leading Clinton, 45 percent to 41 percent.

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The poll comes in the wake of a particularly disastrous week for the Republican nominee, both with party leaders and Republicans in Congress, who are calling him out for his ongoing feud with the parents of a Muslim Army captain who joined the military to fight terrorists and was killed in Baquabah, Iraq, after suicide bombers drove into the gate of his compound in 2004.

Trump then continued his war of words with the Gold Star family, declared that he'd “always wanted” a Purple Heart but that it's “easier” to receive one as a gift, and declined to endorse Republican candidate including House Speaker Paul Ryan.

Here in Atlanta, President Barack Obama was in Atlanta earlier this week, raising money for Clinton. Also this week, a Decatur Republican who said on Wednesday that he could not vote for Donald Trump has resigned his position as a Georgia electoral delegate.

Trump himself held a fundraiser in Atlanta on June 15 at the home of Charlie Loudermilk, who founded Aaron Rents in 1955 and built the now-publicly traded company into a leader in the rent-to-own furniture industry.

While Georgia has consistently voted Republican in recent White House elections, Clinton and Democrats insist the Peach State is in play in 2016.

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