“Picking Pence had no noticeable effect on Trump’s NY numbers”, Carroll said.
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Of those surveyed who were most likely to vote in November, 45% were for Clinton, 43% were for Trump, 5% backed Johnson, 1% backed Stein and 2% supported someone else.
Smith argued that the 2016 election comes down to one question: “If Hillary Clinton can’t give us the truth, why should we give her the presidency?” “I recommended it be in Ohio”, Trump said. Clinton, however, has a 46% to 39% edge over Trump in the all-important swing states – the ten states in 2012 that were decided by less than seven points.
Clinton’s campaign communications director responded strongly. Women are solidly for the first woman nominee of a major party 54-28 percent, with men tipping to Trump 44-40 percent.
Sixty-one percent said they have a somewhat unfavorable or unfavorable view of Trump, while 52 percent said the same about Clinton, a resident of Chappaqua in Westchester County.
New York City voters back Clinton 63-20 percent, while upstate voters go to Trump 48-36 percent. “I will order the American military to commit war crimes.’ What he has laid out is the most risky, reckless approach to being President than I think we’ve ever seen”, she said.
The presumptive Democratic nominee vowed, if elected president, to reform the US criminal justice system and also make sure that those who murder law enforcement officers are held accountable. Three-fourths of voters making less than $50,000 said the country was trending in the wrong direction, compared with 73 percent of voters making between $50,000 and $100,000, and 68 percent of voters who make more than $100,000.
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Don’t confuse the odds in the political prediction market with the information in public opinion polls. Trump’s negatives have come down from a high of 60% in March, while Clinton’s ratings are largely unchanged.
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Smith had previously called out Clinton for being a “liar” and said her son told her that he was expecting an attack, but no action was taken and her son was killed. He also leads Clinton by 3 points, 44 percent to 41 percent, among voters who make between $50,000 and $100,000. Marco Rubio has a three-point edge over Democrat Patrick Murphy in Florida’s U.S. Senate race – a far-narrower margin than in the Quinnipiac poll, which said Rubio was ahead of Murphy by a margin of 50 percent to 37 percent.
