Forty-six percent of voters nationwide say they’ll vote for Clinton in November, while 39 percent say they’ll back Trump.
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Only 36% said that they were more likely to vote for the NY businessman after he was officially named the GOP nominee.
“The decisions we make in the next decade can make all of this possible, or they can keep us trapped in the past”, Clinton says in her Stand for Reality campaign advertisement.
The tweets came just a couple of hours before CNN was due to release a new national poll about the presidential race, leading to speculation that perhaps Trump was pre-emptively assailing CNN in an attempt to discredit the poll results.
In the CBS poll, Clinton gained with Democrats who had been undecided before the convention, but she didn’t seem to woo voters who had previously supported Trump.
Even though it appeared that Hillary Clinton’s education proposal got the upper hand compared to Donald Trump’s, The Atlantic said the Democratic side still have gaps to be filled.
Trump has, of course, bragged that he won the viewership battle: And it’s true that more people watched his speech than watched rival Hillary Clinton’s acceptance speech a week later. “But today he’s taken on a political role as an attack dog for Hillary Clinton, and I think, in that regard, he’s got to take what comes back at him”.
Democratic vice presidential nominee Sen.
Trump has pointed to a victory in the initial television ratings for both conventions: 34.9 million watched his speech, while only 33.8 million watched Clinton’s, on average, across 10 broadcast and cable channels and PBS.
From the beginning, Trump has cast himself as an iconoclastic – indeed, gleefully disruptive – change-maker: a non-politician who denounced the establishments of both parties and promised to scrap traditional policies on everything from the federal debt to trade.
That poll had Trump ahead 48-45 following the Republican convention.
The CNN/ORC Poll was conducted by telephone July 29-31 among a random national sample of 1,003 adults, including 894 registered voters.
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The poll, conducted from Friday through Sunday, had a margin for error of 3 points.
