Voters Preferred Hillary Clinton's Campaign Over Donald Trump's: Poll

Donald Trump may have won the White House, but a new post-election poll finds more Americans preferred the type of campaign Hillary Clinton ran over that of the New York businessman.

Asked to give Trump a grade, just 30 percent of respondents gave him an A or B grade for his campaign, while 35 percent gave him an F, according to the new Pew poll released Monday. When it came to Clinton, 43 percent gave her campaign either an A or B, making for the first time in Pew’s post-election survey history that the losing presidential candidate has graded higher than the election's winner.

The poll also found that 50 percent were happy that Trump won the election while 48 percent were unhappy with the outcome and 56 percent expect Trump to have a successful first term. Among Trump supporters, that number skyrocketed to 97 percent.

The numbers are nearly inverse for Clinton’s supporters, with 76 percent saying they expect Trump to be unsuccessful in his first term. Yet, more than half, 58 percent, said they are “willing to give Trump a chance and see how he governs as president.” However, almost 40 percent said they could not give the president elect a chance “because of the kind of person he has shown himself to be.”

At last count, with final results still absent from Michigan, Clinton won the popular vote by more than 1.3 million votes. Trump, however, handily won the electoral college vote 290 to 232.

The Pew poll was conducted from Nov. 10-14 among 1,254 Americans who voted in the presidential election. Pew contacted via landlines and cell phones 533 people who voted for Trump and 587 people who voted for Clinton. The margin of error for the poll was plus or minus 3.4 percentage points.

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