Sen. Bernie Sanders won Indiana’s primary Tuesday, giving his flagging presidential campaign ammunition to press forward and making plain front-runner Hillary Clinton’s persistent trouble unifying the Democratic Party.
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But the sense of inevitability hasn’t boosted their support among their own parties. But 16% say they would vote for some other candidate if the presidential election comes down to those two, while 6% would stay home.
Trump’s rivals, Ted Cruz and John Kasich, have been mathematically eliminated from reaching the 1,237 delegates needed to win the nomination before the convention. One ad stated that both Clinton and Trump support raising taxes and had supported Bill Clinton’s nationwide ban on popular firearms. Ted Cruz’s decision to end his campaign.
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IN emerged as a must-win for Cruz and the #NeverTrump forces who were set on stopping the controversial GOP front-runner from getting the Republican nomination. Trump was also found to be more unfavorable.
Clinton is the choice of 51 per cent of Democratic voters, while 49 per cent of Republican voters say they would prefer Trump to be their nominee.
Even Clinton’s Democratic rival, Vermont Sen.Bernie Sanders, came to her defense following Trump’scriticisms of Clinton for using the restroom during a televised debate in December.
As Cruz’s fortunes soured Tuesday night, the Sanders campaign appeared to gain new energy with a surprise win over Clinton in Indiana.
Clinton is also more trusted than Trump on many issues voters rank as critically important, with one big exception.
However, where it gets absolutely ridiculous is with the superdelegates – where roughly 93% of them have pledged to support Hillary Clinton – no matter how their state voted. They don’t like her. He contended that Democrats do well when turnout is high and that Republicans do poorly when turnout is high. Overall, 69% say the party is split, up from 59% in March.
It pointed out that his almost $26 million April haul topped Clinton’s $21 million in March. Among those Republican voters who back Trump, 64 percent say they are unrepresented by the government vs. 55 percent among those who favored another GOP candidate.
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The poll surveyed 1,001 adults, including 890 registered voters, between April 28-May 1 with a margin of error of plus or minus 3.5 percentage points for results among registered voters. His campaign distributed factsheets Sunday showing general election polling in battleground states and nationwide where he outperforms his opponent against Republican candidates.
