2016 US presidential race: Hillary Clinton leads Democrats, no Republican frontrunner

Washington, May 7: Despite questions about the Clinton Foundation and her use of private email as secretary of state, Hillary Clinton starts her second presidential bid as a Democratic favourite, while no frontrunner has emerged among the Republicans. Americans now view the former First Lady more favourably and as a stronger leader than they did earlier in the year, despite weeks of scrutiny about her ethics, a New York Times/CBS News poll has found. While nearly nine in 10 Democrats say the nation is ready to elect a female president, there is no clear choice among the growing list of candidates for the Republican nomination, the poll found. More than half the voters don’t know enough about Louisiana’s Indian-American Governor Bobby Jindal, who has been toying with the idea of running, but has not yet thrown his hat into the ring formally. With 85 percent of Democratic voters considering voting for Clinton – similar to March – she continues to be the top candidate for the Democratic nomination for president.Vice President Joe Biden (53 percent) is a distant second to Clinton followed by Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren (36 percent), although half of Democratic voters don’t know enough about Warren to have an opinion.