Santa Clara County’s Measure A has the support of likely voters who appear to favor a sales tax increase on the November ballot to fund the county’s health care system, a new poll commissioned by a local nonprofit shows.

The poll, which was obtained exclusively by The Mercury News and conducted by San Francisco-based David Binder Research, surveyed 600 registered voters in the county between July 12 and 16 about President Donald Trump, the “Big, Beautiful Bill” and asked whether they would vote for a five-eights-of-a-cent sales tax increase to help fill the funding gap the legislation is expected to create.

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