Only 12% Of Democrats Say Hillary Clinton Is Trustworthy

Hillary Clinton continues to lead Donald Trump in polls, but her reputation has not seen much of an improvement, with just over 10 percent of voters saying that she is honest and trustworthy.

In a new NBC News|SurveyMonkey Weekly Election Tracking Poll, Clinton leads Trump by 9 points overall, with 50 percent to his 41 percent, though the majority of voters harbor negative feelings toward both candidates, with 59 percent of voters reporting that they view the Democratic nominee negatively and 64 percent saying the same of her Republican counterpart.

Clinton did have one major advantage over public opinion, with 42 percent of Americans saying that she has the personality and temperament to serve (17 percent said the same of Trump), but only 11 percent of voters considered her to be honest and trustworthy. Among her own party, results were not much better, with just 12 percent of Democrats saying that she was honest and trustworthy. Trump fared just slightly better, with 16 percent of all voters and 19 percent of Republicans saying the same of him.

With two unpopular leading candidates, many voters are unhappy about their choices. Meanwhile, third party candidates such as Libertarian nominee Gary Johnson and Green Party nominee Jill Stein look to court Americans who do not wish to vote for either of the major party nominees, although neither candidate has received enough traction to compete with Clinton or Trump. When factored into the NBC poll, Johnson took in 11 percent support and Stein had four percent, leaving Clinton with 43 percent and Trump with 37.

Both Johnson and Stein are looking to bump their poll numbers up to 15 percent in the near future in order to participate in the presidential debates with Clinton and Trump. As recently announced by the Commission on Presidential Debates, candidates are required to take in an average of 15 percent or higher in polls conducted by ABC/Washington Post, CBS/New York Times, CNN/Opinion Research Corporation, Fox News, and NBC/Wall Street Journal in advance of the Sept. 26 debate, reports the Hill. Neither candidate has scored higher than 12 percent in any of these surveys.

Sources: NBC News, The Hill / Photo Credit: Gage Skidmore/Flickr