Besides winning here before, the former first lady leads in polling and has a deep team of experienced advisers and organizers, some plucked from her 2008 state campaign and from Obama’s team.
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His performance in West Virginia with white, working-class voters also explains why he’s picking up steam in more critical Midwestern swing states that Clinton has to carry in November.
He said he believes that Republican Ayotte will have a more hard time navigating running on a Trump-topped ticket than Democratic Gov. Maggie Hassan will have running below Clinton on the Democratic side of the ballot.
Quinnipiac polls this week showed Clinton and Trump essentially tied in Pennsylvania and Florida and Trump holding a slight edge in Florida. Clinton’s 56% negative rating is only beaten by Trump’s 61% unfavorable rating.
“For months, Bernie Sanders has out-polled Hillary Clinton against Donald Trump, and often by extraordinarily large margins”. Roughly two-thirds of those who picked these options were supporters of Sanders.
If Sanders doesn’t become the Democratic nominee, Professor Nelson says there’s no question that he’s had an enormous impact on many of Clinton’s policies in this race, including her decision this week to propose expanding Medicare to anyone over 50.
“Being profane and not reading the New Yorker are not disqualifying characteristics to many Americans”, Carson wrote. And they would certainly like it to be over. “Then we’re going to have a contested convention”.
For most Democrats (54%), though, a Sanders endorsement is important to their vote, with 33% who say it’s Very Important. Although at this point, only just over half of Sanders supporters say they will vote for Clinton against Trump, just 15% say they will vote for Trump.
Clinton and Trump both poll well with voters of their respective parties, but independent voters continue to express uncertainty about who they will support, with 38% in the Reuters/Ipsospoll saying they are unsure or would vote for someone else.
“What those Democratic candidates need to worry about is if they can turn out the vote that Bernie turned out”, he said. This focus has helped them gain a new voter registration edge over Democrats-Republicans “added nearly 614,000 voters in the seven states reviewed, while Democrats have gained about 289,000″-even while Democrats hold an overall edge”. “I’ve seen up close how much damage this sort of prolonged “zombie” candidacy can inflict on the eventual nominee – and what’s ultimately at stake for the country”.
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Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, who remains in the Democratic race, polled better against Trump among the troops.
