In a recent television interview, Trump pointed out that it was Hillary Clinton who was married to “an abuser” who had done “horrible things” – even while President from the oval office.
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Trump is steadily escalating his criticism of both Hillary and Bill Clinton’s relationship with women, using rhetoric that has little precedent in US presidential politics.
Voters may be choosing their candidates accordingly.
Campaign spokeswoman Jennifer Palmieri said Clinton will compete hard in the remaining primary states, particularly California, while also turning her attention to presumptive GOP nominee Donald Trump. If Sanders has any say in it, the Democrats won’t make the centrist case against Trump, but an openly progressive one.
A deeper look into which demographic groups are now supporting the candidates reveals some early clues about who the campaigns will need to focus their efforts on in the coming months.
If Sanders wants his political revolution to last, he will need to win widespread support for his ideas well into the future.
New Mexico has a large Hispanic population and polls show the demographic is mostly opposed to Trump in large part because of his positions on immigration.
That a single Trump-Sanders debate would be both unprecedented and historic is beyond question, as is the fact that this would be among the most-watched debates in American political history – the opportunity to let Americans see Trump and Sanders tilt at a time when Sanders is still alive for the Democratic nomination, and leads Trump by double-digits nationally and by mid-single digits in nearly every battleground-state poll, would seem too good to pass up for both Fox News and for the two candidates themselves. His Nevada supporters broke up their state convention with shouting and shoving upon perceiving unfair rules interpretations by Clinton backers.
Trump is the only Republican candidate still actively campaigning in the race. These numbers are consistent with margins from last week’s tracking poll.
Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders addresses a campaign rally at the Riverside Municipal Auditorium on May 24, 2016 in Riverside, California. Police said the only arrests so far had been inside the rally, where Trump was interrupted multiple times by protestors.
When she was in the Bluegrass State over the weekend, speaking with voters in the Cincinnati suburbs Sunday, Clinton said the former president would be “in charge of the economy” if she was president. Almost a quarter say that his leadership ability is the most important factor. Of the 41 elected delegates, 40 were Cruz supporters.
Washington held its Democratic primary in March, and Sanders won it easily.
The first results from the presidential primary are expected to come in after 8 p.m. Tuesday.
“It makes sense for both sides to be prosecuting the arguments that they are, but November is still a very long way away”, he said.
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Brian Walsh, a Republican consultant who has served as the NRSC’s communications director, said it is “too early to tell” whether the former secretary of State’s own unpopularity will matter in a big way against Trump, who is also unpopular. Results have an error estimate of plus or minus 1.0 percentage points.
