The first-of-its-kind poll pays special attention to the voices of young adults of color, highlighting how race and ethnicity shape the opinions of the country’s most diverse generation.
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MI is trickier than it may appear for Hillary Clinton, a Democrat whose party’s presidential nominees have carried the struggling manufacturing hub for decades.
The poll also showed a majority of American voters have an overall “unfavorable” view of both main candidates, with 46 percent of Clinton supporters and 47 percent of Trump supporters saying their top priority when voting will be to stop the opposing candidate from reaching the White House.
Much of the change in this poll stems from a steep drop in Clinton’s support among non-whites in Florida compared with the last poll and a decline in support among men.
While Clinton’s history of supporting free trade may not cost her the state, it is costing campaign staff and money to defend its 16 electoral votes.
“I could see Trump discouraging Republicans from turning out in the metro area, but Hillary is not a draw in greater Minnesota, and I think she could present problems that depress some Democratic turnout or depress union voters that tend to vote Democratic”, he said.
“It’s just not a reasonable movement”, she says of Trump’s populist pitch.
An analysis of news coverage from the 2016 primary races found that mainstream media outlets engaged in “journalistic bias” that led to over-coverage of the Donald Trump campaign and under-coverage of Democratic candidates, in particular Sen.
Barack Obama carried the state in 2008 and 2012, but George W. Bush won there in the two elections before that.
In the presidential race, July is convention month. White women without a college degree have backed GOP nominees by double-digits in each of the past three presidential elections, but in the Pew survey they support Trump over Clinton by just three percentage points, 48%-45%.
Trump has donated to Clinton in the past and even invited her and Bill Clinton to his wedding.
He said Clinton was “far and away the best candidate” to confront the challenges facing the United States.
Donald Trump’s numbers went from 41% to 43% and then 44%, a bit more bouncy but also within the MoE.
“I was always a good athlete”, he said, adding, though, that not all “good athletes” can handle pressure, a swipe at Clinton. Thirty-one percent said it was the economy, with no other single issue generating more than 8 percent support.
These days, however, it is Trump who needs to gain ground on Hillary Clinton. One of the biggest shifts in the new survey involves independent voters, who favored Clinton by nine percentage points in the June poll.
John Davilmar, a 20-year-old from West Palm Beach, Florida, is among those seeking an alternative.
GOP rebels trying to dump Donald Trump as the Republican presidential standard-bearer are gathering in Cleveland ahead of the party’s convention next week.
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“Our country is extremely polarized, divided and tense”, she said. “But at least she’s better than what we would get from Trump”.
