The ads are part of a broader Democratic strategy aimed at hitting Republicans in swing states who fear a Trump nomination could doom their reelection prospects.
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Cruz leads Clinton by 3 points, 47 percent to 44 percent, head-to-head.
The latest Franklin & Marshall College poll of Pennsylvania voters shows Donald Trump and John Kasich running nearly neck and neck in the upcoming primary, with 33 percent of registered Republicans supporting Trump and 30 percent supporting Kasich.
Turning back the clock even further, of a full 55 Clinton vs. Trump polls conducted since May 2015 (several months before Trump announced his candidacy), he beats the former Secretary of State in only five.
The poll of 600 active and likely voters shows most Michiganders would prefer a race between Bernie Sanders and John Kasich this November. Bernie Sanders got impressive wins in Utah’s 2016 presidential caucusesTuesdaynight. For the overall group, the margin of error was plus or minus 4.4 percentage points, though it was higher when the two primaries, Democratic and Republican, were considered separately.
There is a possibility that no Republican candidate for President will reach the delegate count of 1,237. Ted Cruz as well, 56 percent say so. That poll of polls found Trump at 34 percent and Cruz at 21 percent in a field of six candidates.
Not quite seven in 10 (68 percent) Cruz supporters say they’d vote for Trump, while 13 percent said they’d favor Clinton. Views of Kasich divide 43 percent favorable to 32 percent unfavorable, with 25 percent unsure about the OH governor. Another 12 percent say he is “not so responsible” and 22 percent say he is “not at all responsible”.
But Clinton beats Trump by 11 points, 49 to 38 percent.
On immigration, Trump’s signature issue, respondents expressed more moderate sentiments than those generally espoused by Trump. Sanders has seen his ratings slip among registered Democrats and Republicans during that time, and independents’ impressions of him are now evenly divided.
Trump is viewed 65 percent unfavorable and Cruz is 54 percent unfavorable.
He threatened: “Lyin’ Ted Cruz just used a picture of Melania from a G.Q. shoot in his ad. Be careful, Lyin’ Ted, or I will spill the beans on your wife!”
The same can not be said for the Republican candidates. Fifty-four of the state’s 71 delegates will be elected without any presidential preference.
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But more men said Trump would be better for investors than the Democratic front-runner, by about 3 percentage points.
