Historic: Never in the history of this U.S. poll have the two likely nominees been viewed so harshly – almost six in every 10 voters say they have a negative impression of them – Clinton’s net negative rating is minus-16; Trump’s is minus-17.
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An NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll released Sunday found the former secretary of state ahead of the billionaire businessman by 3 points – 46 percent to 43 percent – among registered voters.
Insisting that she would be the Democratic presidential nominee for the November elections, Hillary Clinton today said she would focus her energy on defeating her Republican rival Donald Trump.
According to The Washington Post: “Never in the history of the Post-ABC poll have the two major party nominees been viewed as harshly as Clinton and Trump”. Trump’s narrow overall lead among registered voters comes mainly from his current strength among independents, who prefer him to Clinton by 13 points.
“If you want to imagine what Trump’s America will look like, picture more kids at risk of violence and bigotry, picture more anger and fear”, she said. “We’re stronger together when we have a bipartisan, even nonpartisan foreign policy that protects our country”.
Most of the attacks we found on Sanders actually come from other Democrats, including by groups supporting Clinton herself. Nope. On March 10 (on page A6), the headline was “Clinton has big edge in matchup with Trump, poll shows.” .
Trump is getting 85 per cent support now from Republicans, while Clinton has the support of 86 per cent of her Democrat followers.
But Sanders has ignored growing Democratic calls to step aside and repeated his vow to stay in the race until the party’s July 25-28 nominating convention in Philadelphia despite Clinton’s almost insurmountable lead in pledged convention delegates who will choose the nominee.
But I do believe that this Sanders ideology, this political revolution for reformed government, a modified political system – from fundraising to super delegates – a government full funded health insurance and tuition for public college.
Saturday night, Trump tweeted that Clinton was wrong about his position on guns in classrooms.
Trump also accused Clinton and her husband, former President Bill Clinton, of being hypocritical for having armed Secret Service agents around them while calling for stricter gun control measures, and called on the Clintons to “let their bodyguards immediately disarm”.
And Clinton and Trump are both battling historically high unfavorability ratings.
Voters gave Sanders the most positive ratings of the three, with a net positive of 8 points among registered voters.
Clinton noted in an interview on NBC’s “Meet the Press” Sunday that she’s won 3 million more votes than Sanders in the Democratic primaries.
“Do I think she is the kind of chair that the Democratic Party needs?” “That’s fine, but we know what we’re going into and understand what it’s going to take to win in the fall”.
Clinton said she wouldn’t respond to those kinds of attacks. I will certainly do my part, reaching out to Senator Sanders, reaching out to his supporters.
Ms Clinton repeated her pledge to fight the powerful NRA lobby, saying “we will not be silenced, we will not be intimidated”. Todd asked Clinton how she would get past her negative numbers. “She says she is (progressive)”. “I’m running for my first term”.
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“I don’t want to have guns in classrooms”.
