Clinton’s bus tour ended her week at the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia, and a week in which Trump made a decision to enter the battleground state with a Wednesday rally in Scranton. After talking about how Bernie made a bad deal, because Trump can’t go more than five minutes without bringing up deals, how good he is at them, and everyone else’s relative amateurism, Trump said, “If he would have just not done anything, just go home, go to sleep, relax, he would have been a hero”. Trump asked before touting that television ratings were better during his speech than Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton’s the following week.
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Trump has accused Sanders several times in the last week of selling out by endorsing Clinton – each time ratcheting up his words – but his comment on Monday is the most direct comparison Trump has made between Clinton and the devil.
That poll had Trump ahead 48-45 following the Republican convention.
Though it’s become hard to be shocked by anything Trump says at this point, his harsh and disgusting attack on Clinton was still surprising.
“She’s the devil”, the spray-tanned buffoon added, much to the delight of the torch-wielding mob in attendance.
In recent weeks, in an effort to woo angry Sanders supporters to his campaign, Trump has made the claim that the Democrats’ process was also rigged.
“I think both parties got what they wanted out of their conventions”, Republican National Committee chairman Reince Priebus told CNN after the network’s poll was released.
In another post-conventions survey, Public Policy Polling showed a 46-41 Clinton lead in polling that included two other presidential candidates, Libertarian Gary Johnson, with 6 percent support, and the Green Party’s Jill Stein at 2 percent. Among Democrats and Democratic-leaning voters, 42% of women called her speech excellent vs. just 25% of men.
The CNN/ORC poll of 1,003 adults including 894 registered voters was conducted July 29-31 via telephone with a margin of error of 3.5 points for registered voters.
Both candidates were able to improve on their images since that June poll, when 35 percent of Pennsylvania voters had a favorable view of Clinton and 56 percent held a negative one.
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Thirty-one percent of voters have a positive opinion of Trump, which is about the same as before the Republican convention, according to CBS.
