Support for U.S. Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has plummeted to 39 percent, a poll released Sunday showed.
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In case this weren’t quite absurd enough, former Sen. But even more, Wall Street also likes a victor, and it will not dare risk being cut out of the Washington loop by folding up its financial tent on Clinton, exclusively because of VP Warren. Like Sanders, Warren has built much of her career as a champion against income inequality and “too big to fail” banks. Trump’s campaign said the historic vote showed Trump was in sync with a global sentiment of economic frustration and Clinton was out of step.
“Warren, with everything she’s done these past few weeks, has made it really hard for her not to be looked at”, said Mary Ann Marsh, a Boston-based Democratic strategist. “A small, insecure money-grubber who fights for no one but himself”.
“I do just love to see how she gets under Donald Trump’s skin”, said Clinton. Because Hillary Clinton will be the next president of the United States.
The Massachusetts senator’s increasing time in the spotlight is fueling speculation of her rise to the top of Clinton’s vice presidential short list. For instance, 18 per cent of people who found Mr Trump’s comments about the judge racist, 15 per cent of those who think his comments generally are biased against women, minorities or Muslims, and 11 per cent of those who think he is unqualified say they support Mr Trump over Mrs Clinton.
Hillary Clinton on Monday tried to unite disparate elements of the Democratic Party behind her presumptive nomination, using a stop in Chicago to acknowledge she still needs to do more than talk to earn the trust of voters. “I think history is being made”, said Kate O’Donnell, who wasn’t aware Elizabeth Warren was going to speak at the event until she arrived. A month later, she notched a victory when Obama nominee Antonio Weiss pulled out of the running for a Treasury position after Warren sparked a backlash over his past as a Wall Street banker.
Though Warren is an influential progressive within the Democratic Party, strategists said her rhetoric about breaking up too-big-to-fail banks and reining in corporate excess resonates with two groups Clinton must court to win the November 8 election. Trump fans have taken note of her.
Clinton pledged to say no to “bad trade deals like the Trans-Pacific Partnership”.
The mood shifted, however, when her husband took the stage and addressed an issue that is impossible to avoid in Chicago: gun violence.
Trump, looking to drive Clinton’s negative poll numbers higher, has started to attack Clinton’s trustworthiness. And she’s likely to battle the appointment of regulators and administrative figures with Wall Street ties, a common practice for recent presidents of both parties, including Clinton’s husband. Scott Brown (R), who lost his Senate seat to Warren before losing another Senate race in a different state two years later, headlined an RNC conference call this afternoon to – you guessed it – complain at length about the senator’s ethnicity. They want to have independence, in a sense, and you see it with Europe, all over Europe. Elizabeth Warren, who is calling Clinton a fighter who “has never backed down”. Half of the people surveyed said they were anxious about the prospect of a Clinton presidency. They’ve already asked Warren to complete a questionnaire and for documents.
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In addition, Trump leads Clinton on several issues and presidential qualities. She sat out for New Hampshire, when Clinton was clobbered with a 22-point loss.
