In the Data Targeting poll, 56 percent of voters have an unfavorable impression of Clinton, the Democratic presidential front-runner, while 55 percent of voters have an unfavorable of Trump, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee.
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In a general election match-up, Clinton has much more support than Trump with blacks and Hispanics, leading him with those groups by 75 to 37 percent.
The Trump Make America Great Again Committee is a joint fundraising committee between the RNC and Trump’s campaign.
Said Trump, “We are pleased to have this partnership in place with the national party”.
Winning Michigan won’t be easy for Trump, but if pundits have learned anything in a bewildering election year like none other in history, it’s to not take anything for granted where the unconventional billionaire candidate is concerned.
Campaign strategists speaking on condition of anonymity told the Associated Press on Tuesday that the Trump camp has started laying the groundwork for November, including placing operatives in more than a dozen states that traditionally favour Democrats. Clinton has repeatedly challenged Trump to publicly release his tax returns during her political campaign and this move is likely to sting Trump.
Mr. Trump said earlier this month that he would set up a joint fundraising committee and begin actively raising money for the general election, after largely self-funding his primary campaign. His expansion into new states signals recognition that Trump must grow his bare-bones operation to be competitive this fall, even if he doesn’t fully embrace other modern-day political tactics.
“If I don’t win, I will consider it to be a total and complete waste of time and energy”, the GOP frontrunner said.
“Whoever America elects we’ll deal with but there’s no doubt in my mind that Trump would be very hard, I think, to deal with”.
Although Trump won easily, he still has work to do unifying a party that’s been split by his controversial claims regarding immigration, women, Latinos and the economy.
The new Trump Victory committee will be headed by RNC Finance chair Lew Eisenberg.
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Eisenberg, of Rumson, became finance chairman of the RNC after Ray Washburne left the national party post to raise money for Gov. Chris Christie’s presidential campaign.
