There hasn’t been a significant post-convention bounce in CNN’s polling since 2000.
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She never mentioned the flap over the outgoing DNC Chairman Debbie Wasserman Schultz and all those leaked emails, but she did promise a very different convention than the Republicans last week.
Worried Democrats say they thought some of the “dark” themes that Trump and his allies raised in Cleveland wouldn’t gain traction in modern-day America.
Speaking to a Veterans of Foreign Wars convention in Charlotte, North Carolina on Tuesday morning, Trump and his vice presidential nominee, Indiana Gov. Mike Pence, both criticized Democrats for not focusing on groups like ISIS during their convention’s opening night. Clinton enjoyed solid support from independent men as well, but in significantly smaller numbers.
The poll also reflected a sharpening of the education divide among whites that had been prevalent throughout the campaign.
A plurality of Idahoans think Donald Trump is more qualified to be president than Hillary Clinton, even though a majority still don’t think he has the temperament for the job, according to the latest poll released by Idaho Politics Weekly.
While this data comes off the heels of the GOP convention in Cleveland, Trump’s post-nomination bump is bigger than Clinton’s decline, which suggests the real-estate mogul has snagged support from some undecided and third-party voters. He now holds double-digit margins over Clinton as more trusted on the economy and terrorism.
Clinton’s favorable rating in the CNN poll is now 16 points net-negative.
And a week after stressing how humble he is, Donald Trump released a new online video over the weekend on the amount of applause his convention speech received last week – which might, just might, reinforce concerns about his over-the-top narcissism. The number of Americans who say they would be proud to have him be president is up seven points to 39 percent and now 46 percent of Americans say he’s in touch with their problems in daily life. In a two-way race, it’s a three-point lead for Trump among registered voters, 48 percent to 45 percent.
In a speech at the Charlotte Convention Center, Clinton talked about the strength of the USA military and the US economy.
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But 40 percent called the speech excellent or good and 45 percent said said Trump’s speech represented how they feel about things in the United States today.
