Only 15% said that Trump would be an “average” president.As for Clinton, 31% believe that she would make a “good or great” president, while 22% believe she would be average and 45% believe she would be a poor (12%) or bad (33%) president.
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The ad seeks to highlight Trump’s hardline stance on immigration – something which has become a major theme in his campaign. It’s a political challenge that mirrors the one her husband, former President Bill Clinton, faced almost a quarter century ago.
“It will be a challenge”, said Mickey Kantor, a longtime Clinton supporter who chaired his 1992 campaign.
As a candidate, Bill Clinton was dogged in 1992 by questions about his honesty, but voters ultimately viewed him as a better caretaker of the economy, which had stumbled during President George H.W. Bush’s administration.
Those same polls show that much of the public doesn’t like Clinton and find her untrustworthy, and she has acknowledged as much.
One Jewish Democratic activist called the numbers “shocking” while noting that these approval ratings only represent Clinton’s starting position, not her current standing among Jewish voters.
The internal poll comes as a surprise mainly due to the feeling many Jewish political experts share that 2016 will be a landslide year for Democrats among Jewish voters.
“Sometimes in the heat of debate and speaking on a multitude of issues, you don’t choose the right words or you say the wrong thing”. “If I’d have to guess, I’d put it at 90%”.
Trump also sought to use his speech Thursday to appeal to African-American voters, an important voting bloc in the battleground state of North Carolina.
The Clinton campaign immediately expressed doubt over the sincerity of Trump’s contrition, calling it “teleprompter regret” and pressed Trump to go further. When asked in interviews about specific instances where others have taken offense, Trump has always pushed back hard.
There are several mitigating factors that could explain, to a certain extent, Clinton’s relatively low approval rate among Jewish voters at the early stages of the campaign.
Prior to the Trump collapse this month, Trump was tied with Hillary Clinton in these states.
Trump’s campaign has ordered broadcast television ads totaling $4 million over the next two weeks the battle ground states of Florida, Pennsylvania, North Carolina, and Ohio.
The relative steadiness of Trump’s message was all the more surprising given that one of the staffing changes he made this week was bringing on Stephen Bannon, the combative head of Breitbart News, a pro-Trump website that frequently targets Republican leaders and promotes false conspiracy theories about Clinton.
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“They will be about Hillary, they’ll be about facts and figures”.
