Sasse said he can not vote for either Trump or the likely Democratic nominee, Hillary Clinton, in November and he will not back away from that position despite continuing pressure to do so.
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“Independents are the largest voting population in the U.S. Gallup reports that independents are 42 percent of the voting population, while Democrats are only 29 percent and Republicans are only 26 percent”, he explained. Now shifting toward the general election, Trump has hired GOP pollster Tony Fabrizio, who confirmed the move Tuesday on Twitter.
Sasse said he has not been actively seeking a third candidate after calling for a presidential alternative – “I posted two open letters on Facebook” – and he believes it’s probably not possible now for an alternative Republican candidate to mount a successful challenge to Trump at the GOP national convention. Though the Democratic National Committee has building fund of its own, Clinton did not include that in her joint fundraising agreement.
Trump’s deployment of political operatives was outlined by campaign strategists who weren’t authorized to speak publicly about internal strategy and demanded anonymity.
“With Clinton and Trump, the fix is in”.
Statement from Gene Sperling on Donald Trump’s Risky Suggestion He Would Consider Defaulting on the National Debt as President, was the headline on one Hillary Clinton press release. The Super PAC is mounting a $6 million media campaign to portray Trump as a “divisive, unsafe con man who should never be president of the United States”, according to a spokesman for the organization.
Financial statements of Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton showed that she earned almost $7 million a year ago through sales of her latest book as well as paid speeches. It has an error estimate of +/- 1.2 percentage points for the full sample. The Real Clear Politics average of polls has the former secretary of state up over Trump just under 6 points, but the trend has shown the race tightening, which the NBC/Survey Monkey poll further confirmed.
The Sanders campaign was not immediately saying whether it would challenge the results. While both men praised each other after the two-hour-plus huddle, Ryan continued to withhold a formal endorsement even though all other candidates have dropped out.
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Many expect Sanders to do well in Oregon and possibly win though a poll released last week by Oregon Public Radio actually had Clinton in the lead by 15 points.
