Donald Trump Plummeting in State and National Polls Following DNC and Disastrous Week

Donald Trump is a numbers guy, and the numbers aren't good after a series of state and national polls released in the last 24 hours show the Republican presidential nominee down in virtually every survey, several in double digits.

National polls:

• NBC/Wall Street Journal poll shows Clinton with a 9-point lead over Trump, 47 percent to 38 percent.
• McClatchy/Marist poll says Clinton has a 15-point lead over Trump, 48 percent to 33 percent.
• Fox News poll shows Clinton ahead of Trump by 10 points, 49 percent to 39 percent.

State polls:

• In New Hampshire, Clinton leads Trump by 15 points, 47 percent to 32 percent, according to a poll from WBUR.
• In a Florida poll, Clinton beats Trump 48 percent to 42 percent among likely Florida voters, according to the survey from Suffolk University.
• In Michigan, Clinton is ahead of Trump by 9 points, 41 percent to 32 percent, according to a Detroit news/WDIV-TV poll.
• A Pennsylvania poll shows Clinton leads Trump by 11 points, 49 percent to 38 percent, according to the Franklin and Marshall College poll.

On Thursday, the Trump campaign attempted to downplay the significance of the polls, saying it "expected" Clinton to go up in the polls following the Democratic convention.

"It depends on which poll you look at. We feel like in another week or so, the polls are going to even out," Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort said. "We always thought we had a bounce and knew the Democrats would have a bounce. And now you see a situation in what looks like an uneven field, but in two weeks we think that’s gonna even out if we are out there on our message, which we will be."

However, Manafort did not address the disastrous week Trump found himself in and the role that plays in his dropping polling numbers.

In the last week, Trump continued his war of words with a Gold Star family, declared that he "always wanted" a Purple Heart but that it's "easier" to receive one as a gift, admitted that there was no "secret" video of a U.S. plane carrying $400 million in cash to Iran, and declined to endorse Republican candidates including House Speaker Paul Ryan.

In recent national polling, Clinton leads head-to-head match-ups against Trump, with the Democrat holding 47.4 percent support compared to 40.6 for the Republican presidential nominee, according to averages compiled by RealClear Politics.

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