His eldest child, Donald Trump Jr., announced the support of NY, their home state, during a roll-call vote at the Republican National Convention, ensuring Trump had the majority of delegates – 1,237 – needed to contest the November 8 US presidential election against presumptive Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton.
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Clinton’s lead increased one point since the last poll, which had Clinton at 42 percent and Trump at 41 percent. That five-point margin remains the same from a Journal/NBC News survey taken last month before the Federal Bureau of Investigation criticized Clinton’s private email practices as “extremely careless” while she was secretary of state.
The poll also found that Clinton has a huge advantage among African-Americans with 84% supporting Clinton compared to 7% backing Trump.
Trump is ahead among whites by 50% to 37%, as well as among men by 46% to 39%, according to the survey.
‘And I hope by the time we have this election- it will be clear to voters who they can count on’. “We demand law and order”, Trump said.
As Republicans were gaveling in their presidential nominating convention in Cleveland on Monday afternoon, Hillary Clinton was on the other side of OH, calling on members of the nation’s oldest civil rights organization to join with police to reduce the number of deaths of black people at the hands of officers. Meanwhile, Clinton is seen as qualified to serve as president by a 56 percent majority of voters.
Trump’s first major act as the GOP nominee, the selection of Indiana Governor Mike Pence as his running mate, appears to have had negligible impact.
Among Republicans and Republican-leaning independents, over seven in 10 see Trump as qualified to be president – but that still leaves nearly one-quarter of that part of the electorate questioning their presumptive nominee’s fitness.
The Bay State senator showed strength in the poll across all regions of the country and doesn’t have the baggage that has hampered Clinton and kept Trump in the race despite his unfavorable rating of 58 percent.
One political figure Americans do like: President Obama. When gender is included in the analysis, the poll finds that white women with college degrees narrowly support Clinton while white men with college degrees support Trump by a slightly larger margin.
Instead, speaker after speaker took aim at Clinton, presenting her as out of touch with the concerns of ordinary Americans and the inheritor of Obama’s “oppressive” administration.
Clinton holds a three percentage point lead in Loudoun County, Virginia, according to Axiom, but that is down from an eight percent lead in June.
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Clinton told him in the clip that aired Monday night on CBS, ‘I understand people who are asking these questions.
