In the new poll, among all adults, Clinton leads by 10 points – 50-40 percent – compared to a 14-point lead among this wider group last month.
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Donald Trump is making slight gains on presumptive Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton, according to a new national poll released on the eve of the Republican party’s national convention kickoff in Cleveland.
The New Jersey governor was one of the final three contenders in the running for the GOP vice presidential nomination, but Trump instead picked Indiana Gov. Mike Pence. Libertarian candidate Gary Johnson had 5% and the Green Party’s Jill Stein had 2%, while 2% backed someone else entirely.
Clinton’s top campaign aides believe that the way to beat Trump in November is to not only stoke voters’ distrust of him, but to cast a vote for him as a vote for putting the United States in danger. That represents nearly no change for either Clinton or Trump, but a 4-point bump for Johnson. “But Johnson’s support outpaces that of a typical third party candidate and may prove to have more staying power”, CNN polling director Jennifer Agiesta writes.
“We will be stressing, in the course of the week, an indictment of Hillary Clinton as the ultimate establishment candidate”.
That’s the day that President Obama’s term ends.
The new survey shows Clinton leading Trump by 47-43 percent among registered voters.
But the negative statements, Devors said, “are going toward those Republicans who are lukewarm to Mr. Trump”.
On the GOP side, the National Rifle Association’s political fund, which has been airing ads backing Trump and opposing Clinton, reported $13 million cash on hand at the beginning of July after raising $1.3 million last month.
As Republicans rally in Cleveland and Democrats prepare for their Philadelphia convention, Hillary Clinton seems to have her adopted home state votes safely locked up. Among those who say they’d rather see Sanders become the Democratic nominee, 79% now back Clinton, up slightly from 74% in June, while 74% of those who want someone other than Trump to be the Republican nominee now back him, up from 67% in June. Sixty-four percent of Americans view Trump unfavorably, versus 31 percent that don’t. Clinton has smaller edges on looking out for the middle class and handling terrorism, while Trump holds small edges on taxes and the economy.
And Christie said he was pleased Trump didn’t choose “another big mouth from Congress”, an apparent sling directed at former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, who contended with Christie and Pence for the vice presidential role. And although more say they’d be proud to have her as president than say so about Trump, almost 6-in-10 say they wouldn’t be proud should Clinton win the presidency.
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For example, Michelle Obama said in 2008 that “Barack and I were raised with so numerous same values, that you work hard for what you want in life; that your word is your bond and you do what you say you’re going to do; that you treat people with dignity and respect, even if you don’t know them, and even if you don’t agree with them”.
