Donald Trump has taken a fall in the polls, raising the question of whether controversial remarks by the presumptive Republican nominee are catching up with him.
Two new opinion surveys show that the candidate has fallen significantly behind rival Hillary Clinton nationally after he accused a Hispanic-American judge of bias against him because of his Mexican heritage. He later suggested that he should be congratulated for “being right on Islamic terrorism” following Sunday’s attack in Orlando.
Seventy per cent of Americans now have negative views of Mr Trump, according to a Washington Post-ABC News poll released on Wednesday, his highest disapproval rating since the 2016 campaign began.