Sanders endorsed Hillary Clinton at a joint rally in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, on Tuesday, saying that she is the best candidate to defeat Republican presumptive nominee Donald Trump for the White House. The poll was conducted July 8 through July 12, in the aftermath of FBI Director James Comey’s recommendation not to file criminal charges on Hillary Clinton for her email controversy. Instead, Bernie’s young supporters, who were so important to his astounding performance during the primary season, are flocking to another female presidential candidate, and her name is Jill Stein. Fifty-nine percent said it should be legalized, 39 percent said it shouldn’t.
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Bernie Sanders won’t pick a fight over the Democratic Party’s policy platform at the nominating convention in Philadelphia, his spokesman said Wednesday.
In the same poll last month, the Democrat Clinton had a six point lead over Trump – 43 to 37 percent.
The single poll puts Trump ahead or tied in each state.
On the grounds of the Old State Capitol here, where almost 160 years ago Abraham Lincoln held forth on “a house divided”, Hillary Clinton on Wednesday lamented the Party of Lincoln’s transition to the Party of Trump, casting the present moment as an indelible stain on Republican history. That process clearly pushed Clinton further to the left than she was when she launched her campaign.
The latest figures come soon after the results of an FBI investigation into Clinton’s use of a private email server while she was secretary of state, which revived the controversy amid an onslaught of criticism by Republicans. Some 60pc of likely voters have an unfavourable view of Trump, compared with 58pc on July 1.
But another big factor is the sample of voters who are surveyed. It has a credibility interval, a measure of accuracy, of 3pc. But the NYT/CBS poll found that Trump has widened his lead on who would better handle the economy, now leading Clinton by 11 points on this issue. He said he thinks Sanders is coming together with Clinton to help her understand issues affecting what he calls the 99 percent. Trump said in a tweet that Ginsburg should resign.
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The real estate mogul has a clear advantage on bringing change: 48 percent think Trump would do a better job on a “new direction for the country”, while 35 percent say Clinton. Quinnipiac also released poll results Wednesday showing the candidates tied in OH and Trump leading by two points in Pennsylvania, both of which also are closely watched swing states. The error margin was 3.2 points in that survey. But he also delivered a stinging, primed-for-attack-ads admonition to Clinton and her staff, saying, “Although we did not find clear evidence that Secretary Clinton or her colleagues meant to violate laws governing the handling of classified information, there is evidence that they were extremely careless in their handling of very sensitive, highly classified information”.
