Trump improves to meet Clinton neck-and-neck in latest poll

Hillary Clinton supporters. — (Image credit: John Sommers II/Getty Images)

A slight improvement in Donald Trump's poll numbers has him neck-and-neck with Hillary Clinton less than a month out from the beginning of the general election season. The Quinnipiac University survey, released on Wednesday, gives Clinton a slight edge of 42 percent to Trump's 40 percent. Trump lagged 4 points behind Clinton at the beginning of June.

Sixty-one percent of voters also believe that the competition between the two candidates is leading to the increase of hate and prejudice in the U.S. "It would be difficult to imagine a less flattering from-the-gut reaction to Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton," the assistant director of the Quinnipiac University poll, Tim Malloy, said.

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Jeva Lange was the executive editor at TheWeek.com. She formerly served as The Week's deputy editor and culture critic. She is also a contributor to Screen Slate, and her writing has appeared in The New York Daily News, The Awl, Vice, and Gothamist, among other publications. Jeva lives in New York City. Follow her on Twitter.