Albert R. Hunt, Columnist

Trump Can't Get Past the Door in Rust Belt Homes

A poll shows that majorities of voters in four states wouldn't want the Republican front-runner in their living rooms.

May 26, 2016 at 10:00 AM UTC

Albert R. Hunt is a former Bloomberg Opinion columnist. He was the executive editor of Bloomberg News, before which he was a reporter, bureau chief and executive Washington editor at the Wall Street Journal.

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Donald Trump has a personal problem with voters that transcends policy differences, partisan affiliations and political concerns: They don't want him in their homes and aren't eager to have their kids exposed to him.

These are among the findings of an online poll of working-class voters in the Rust Belt. When asked which likely general election candidate would be a good role model for their children, these voters said they preferred Hillary Clinton, 39 percent to 14 percent. By a margin of more than 3-2 they said they would rather have her in their homes over Trump, according to the Purple Slice survey conducted by Purple Strategies for Bloomberg Politics.