Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump has branded his Democratic rival Hillary Clinton as a “devil”.
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Trump made this claim twice – first when he addressed an audience in Columbus, Ohio, and the next time when he appeared for a TV show. Fifty-two percent see him negatively.
Clinton’s acceptance speech merited mixed reviews, with 44% calling it excellent or good, 20% just OK and 19% poor or bad. There was no gender gap in perceptions of Trump’s speech.
Former Republican candidate John McCain became the latest senior party membet to criticise Trump for his attack on the parents of US Army Captain Humayun Khan, who was killed by a auto bomb in 2004 in Iraq, at the age of 27. Which isn’t how presidential campaigns work, Al Gore will remind you; she needs to win a majority of electoral college votes.
At a campaign rally in Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania, Trump on Monday night told the crowd that Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders “made a deal with the devil” when he agreed to back Clinton and help bring his supporters on board for her campaign, CBS News reported. Among Democrats and independents who lean toward the Democratic Party, 84% now feel the party will be united by November, up from 75% before either convention. In the first poll conducted after both conventions, that situation has changed.
Clinton also came out stronger in terms of the share of Americans who think her policies will move the country in the right direction, rising from 43 percent of respondents before either convention to 48 percent today, according to the CNN poll.
Both conventions featured their candidate’s family members prominently, but Americans aren’t so sure they should have that much of a role in any administration. Johnson got 10% support from registered voters, while Clinton got 43% support and Trump got 38%.
Trump also said Clinton is as “crooked as a three-dollar bill”. “There’s just no way in my opinion”, he said.
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The poll surveyed 1,393 adults nationwide, including 1,131 registered voters by phone on July 29-31. Results for the sample of registered voters have a margin of sampling error of plus or minus 3.5 percentage points.
