--- title: Voters Concerned or Frightened of Trump Presidency description: Nearly as many feel the same way about a Clinton presidency canonical: https://time.com/4144224/two-thirds-of-voters-concerned-or-frightened-of-potential-trump-presidency/ author: Sarah Begley article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-12-10T14:08:15.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-22T13:16:05.571Z article:section: Politics og:title: Two Thirds of Voters Concerned or Frightened of Trump Presidency og:description: Nearly as many feel the same way about a Clinton presidency og:url: https://time.com/4144224/two-thirds-of-voters-concerned-or-frightened-of-potential-trump-presidency/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Two Thirds of Voters Concerned or Frightened of Trump Presidency twitter:description: Nearly as many feel the same way about a Clinton presidency twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Two-Thirds of Voters Concerned or Frightened of Potential Trump Presidency by [Sarah Begley](https://time.com/author/sarah-begley/) ## Sarah Begley Dec 10, 2015 2:08 PM UTC by [Sarah Begley](https://time.com/author/sarah-begley/) ## Sarah Begley Dec 10, 2015 2:08 PM UTC A new poll found that two-thirds of American voters (64%) are either [concerned about or afraid of ](http://www.nytimes.com/politics/first-draft/2015/12/10/trump-solidifies-his-lead-but-leaves-many-nervous/)a potential Donald Trump presidency—and that nearly as many (57%) are concerned about or frightened of a potential Hillary Clinton presidency. The New York Times/CBS News nationwide poll included 1,053 registered voters from Dec. 4 to 8—meaning most people responded before Trump’s remarks about banning Muslims from entering the U.S. While the negative anticipation about each candidate fell mainly along party lines, one-third of Republicans said they were concerned or afraid of what would happen if Trump were president. Less than a quarter of Democrats said the same of Clinton. Trump is leading polls among Republicans with 35% of voters supporting him, followed by Ted Cruz at 16%. Among the Democrats, Clinton leads Bernie Sanders by 20 points. \[[_NYT_](http://www.nytimes.com/politics/first-draft/2015/12/10/trump-solidifies-his-lead-but-leaves-many-nervous/)\] ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4144224/two-thirds-of-voters-concerned-or-frightened-of-potential-trump-presidency/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4144224/two-thirds-of-voters-concerned-or-frightened-of-potential-trump-presidency/"},"headline":"Two-Thirds of Voters Concerned or Frightened of Potential Trump Presidency","datePublished":"2015-12-10T14:08:15.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T13:16:05.571Z","description":"Nearly as many feel the same way about a Clinton presidency","url":"https://time.com/4144224/two-thirds-of-voters-concerned-or-frightened-of-potential-trump-presidency/","keywords":["Election 2016"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Sarah Begley","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/sarah-begley/"}],"articleSection":"Politics","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/politics/","name":"Politics"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/election-2016/","name":"Election 2016"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4144224/two-thirds-of-voters-concerned-or-frightened-of-potential-trump-presidency/","name":"Two-Thirds of Voters Concerned or Frightened of Potential Trump Presidency"}}]}] ```