Mind-blowing stat is another sign of a major problem for Donald Trump

A new poll released Monday illustrates a majorhurdle facing Donald Trump's electoral prospects.TheMonmouth University poll found presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton up 7 points over Trump in a head-to-head general election match-up. No third-party candidates received morethan 10% support.But more alarmingly for the presumptive Republican presidentialnominee,49% of registered voterssaid it is "very important" to make sure Trump is not elected president. The poll found that41% saidit is "very important" to keep Clinton out of the White House.Just31% of respondents saidthat it was "not at all" important to stop Trump from becoming president, while 35% said the same about Clinton.The gulf was even wider among self-described independent and undecided voters.Among that group,48% of respondents said it is very important to prevent a Trump from occupying the White House,compared to 32%who felt similarly about Clinton."The fear ofeither Clinton or Trump getting into the White House, though, may lead some to hold their noses and votefor the other major party nominee. And right now, a Trump victory appears to be the more troublingoutcome for these voters," Monmouth University polling director Patrick Murray said in a statement.Many experts caution against reading too far into statistics in national polls."Generally, it would be ideal to watch battlegrounds such as Ohio/Florida/Pennsylvania.However, state polls are sparse," Princeton University pollingexpert Samuel Wang told Business Insider in an email last week. "This year's states are mostly correlated with 2012, so there's no realignment.This means that watching national numbers is probably a reasonable substitute. "Still, Monday's release is only the latest in a string of alarmingstatistics for the real-estate mogul.A Bloomberg Politics poll releasedlast weekfound that 55% of voters reported that they could never see themselves supporting Trump.SEE ALSO:A major poll just gave Hillary Clinton an enormous lead over Donald TrumpJoin the conversation about this storyNOW WATCH: TRUMP SPOKESPERSON: Why the Republican party has 'miserably failed
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