A new poll finds presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton with a towering lead over her likely Republican counterpart, Donald Trump.
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Yet 64 percent of voters who want the nation to move in a different direction prefer Mr. Trump, compared to 26 percent who are backing Mrs. Clinton.
However, both Clinton and President Obama had urged voters in the United Kingdom to remain part of the EU. Instead, Clinton can “surgically define him through paid media” and opportunities for news coverage to reinforce her message, argued Schale, as she has did earlier this week with back-to-back speeches on economic policy and last week in a national security address that excoriated Trump as unsafe and unfit for the presidency.
Reuters says that the 70-year-old NY business tycoon saw a slight bump following the 12 June mass shooting in Orlando, when he again vowed to cut Muslim immigration into the usa, cutting Ms Clinton’s lead down to nine points.
There’s a school of thought that says any development that rattles Americans’ nerves is probably good news for Trump: more public anxiety leads to a greater appetite for radical change, even if it means putting a nativist reality-show personality in the Oval Office.
The poll comes after a troublesome week for the Trump campaign, which was revealed to only have a campaign budget of $1.3m (£950,000) at the beginning of June.
But a Michigan Republican Party spokeswoman said state party leaders aren’t anxious because Trump is an untraditional candidate.
Hillary will be joined on the stump next week by fellow Trump attacker Sen.
A similar dynamic occurred earlier in June when Trump drew days of media coverage by questioning the objectivity of a federal judge overseeing his Trump University fraud case because of his Mexican ancestry.
The June 12 shooting rampage at a gay nightclub in Orlando, which killed 49 people and the gunman, tested both Clinton and Trump, who took divergent approaches with their responses, both temperamentally and substantively.
“We’ve never had a situation like this where the holdings of the president could create an acute conflict in carrying out his duties”, said Gross, now a lawyer with Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meager and Flom. “All because of supporters like you”.
Trump also said Clinton had used bad political judgment in her four years as secretary of state, failing to stop the rise of Islamic State, keep strong sanctions on Iran or avoid chaos in Libya.
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A presidential candidate can only accept up to $5,400 from an individual donor. Soon after, however, Hillary Clinton issued a statement of her own. It has a plus-or-minus 3.5 percentage point margin of error.
