Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton has widened her lead over her Republican rival Donald Trump in key battleground states, according to a latest opinion poll’.
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The results represent increasing margins for Clinton in each of those four states, compared with polling conducted before the conventions and all the leads are outside each poll’s margin of sampling error. She leads Trump in North Carolina 48%-39%.
She has the lead in polls of key swing states such as OH and Pennsylvania and appears to have a chance to expand the map with victories in traditionally red states like Georgia, he asserted.
In Virginia – a state that eluded Democrats for four decades before President Barack Obama won it in 2008 and 2012 – Clinton looks likely to continue her party’s winning streak. Clinton led Trump by 12 percentage points in Colorado (where Johnson and Stein polled at 15 percent and 6 percent, respectively); by five percentage points in Florida (with Johnson at 9 percent and Stein at 4 percent); by nine percentage points in North Carolina (where Johnson had 9 percent and Stein had 2 percent); and by 12 percentage points in Virginia (with Johnson at 12 percent and Stein at 5 percent).
In Virginia, the former secretary of state’s lead is 13 points, 46 percent to 33 percent.
Many Republicans not only worry about failing to win the White House, but also are alarmed that their majorities in the Senate and House of Representatives could be at risk. In an unusually frank acknowledgement that he could lose the election, Trump said Thursday that his campaign needed “help” in pivotal states like OH and even faced a “tremendous problem” in Utah, normally a solid GOP state but a place where his crude image sits poorly with Mormon voters.
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In recent weeks Trump has seen a steady stream of moderate Republicans vow not to support him, such as U.S. Senator Susan Collins of ME, while 50 Republican national security experts signed a letter opposing him.
