Poll: More people think life improves under Clinton

WASHINGTON -- Americans have mixed feelings on which presidential candidate will do better on health care, trade, the economy, terrorism and other important issues. But when they simply consider whether they personally would be better off, they prefer Democrat Hillary Clinton.

The latest Associated Press-GfK poll shows Americans are more likely to think people like themselves would benefit more from a Clinton White House than one run by Republican Donald Trump, by 36 percent to 29 percent.

They also are much more likely to think women, LGBT people, Hispanics, Muslims and blacks would be better off under Clinton, while they largely think men and whites would be better off under Trump.

On major issues in the race, voters are divided over which candidate they trust more, reflecting the deep divisions in the electorate. Clinton has a clear advantage on handling health care, the U.S. image abroad, filling Supreme Court vacancies, working with Congress and improving race relations, according to the poll. On race relations, Americans were more likely to trust Clinton than Trump to make improvements, 45 percent to 17 percent.

The former secretary of state also has a slight advantage on handling international trade. But Trump has a slight advantage on handling the economy, creating jobs and handling the threat of domestic terrorism.

People are closely divided over who would better handle immigration, protecting the country, gun laws and making America great.

The AP-GfK Poll of 1,009 adults was conducted online July 7 to 11, using a sample drawn from GfK's probability-based KnowledgePanel, which is designed to be representative of the U.S. population. The margin of sampling error for all respondents is plus or minus 3.3 percentage points. People selected who didn't have access to the internet were provided access for free.