Clinton has the support of 50 percent of voters and Trump is backed by 41 percent, which closely mirrors last week’s result in the same survey conducted by the NBC News and the Survey Monkey Weekly Election Tracking Poll. But Clinton leads Trump with voters younger than 65 by 4 points and beats him with voters younger than 45 by 25 points.
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Overall, Trump leads Clinton 44-38 percent in Texas, according to the poll.
This is a surprisingly tight race for Texas, one of the most Republican states in the country where Mitt Romney won by a margin of almost 16 percent. And as Healy points out, that’s where Hillary Clinton’s undisputed organizational advantage over Donald Trump could begin to become crucial earlier rather than later – as early as September 23, when early voting begins in Minnesota and South Dakota. Less than half of the poll respondents knew that Rubio had endorsed Trump for president. Trump said one of his first acts as president will be to establish a commission on radical Islam which will include reformist voices in the Muslim community who will hopefully work with his administration.
In an effort to get his Presidential campaign back on track, Republican nominee Donald Trump gave a speech yesterday in which he discussed the so-called “extreme vetting” he would instigate against those wishing to migrate to the US.
The poll, conducted August 12-15, surveyed 402 likely voters and has a margin of error of plus or minus 4.9 percentage points.
As for the state’s senate race, GOP incumbent Sen. Those voters supported Trump at 58 percent compared to Clinton’s 32 percent. She leads Trump 49% to 40% in the RCP average there. “We asked voters if they agreed or disagreed with the statement ‘I’m mad as hell and I won’t take it anymore.'” Of the 54% who said they agreed, Trump leads by a 2:1 margin (58%-28%).
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Her team, which is being overseen by campaign chairman John Podesta, will handle long-term planning for a potential Clinton White House should the former secretary of state win the election in November. Even so, just 26 percent said Clinton’s selection of Kaine would make it more likely for them to support the Democratic nominee, while 7 percent said it would make them less likely and a full two-thirds – 66 percent – said it would not make a difference.
