The poll was conducted August 9-16 of 2,010 adults, including 1,567 registered voters.
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Jan Brewer (R), a prominent Trump supporter, yesterday called Hillary Clinton a “lying killer” during a radio interview.
Gianaris said support for Clinton among suburban and independent voters is a particularly positive sign for the party.
Rosario Marín, the U.S. Treasurer in the Bush/Cheney administration, wrote a rather enthusiastic endorsement of Hillary Clinton this week.
More than two-thirds of Trump voters, 69 percent, also think that if Clinton wins the election, it will be because it was rigged. “He was at 36 points on Thursday, up slightly this week”.
The difference in the PPP poll was less than the poll’s margin of error, 3.4 percent, but Clinton’s lead exceeded the Marist poll’s margin of error of 3.1 percent. On the flip side, 51 percent of supporters of Clinton said they want to keep Trump out of the White House.
The RNC’s Sean Spicer, defending his work on behalf of Trump’s candidacy, told the Washington Post this week, “There are doctors who help people who have done bad things, there are lawyers who defend bad people”. If they can’t see that Donald Trump wants to make America great again, and that America is exceptional, they should stay in daddy’s garage and not vote.
That’s likely going to change, and Clintonworld knows it. Trump’s appointment of Breitbart chairman Stephen Bannon as campaign chief executive signals a new, more aggressive stage of Election 2016. While Trump should be focusing on addressing important topics, including health care and the economy, he is instead engaging in puzzling arguments and making outlandish claims.
He picked a fight with the parents of a Muslim US Army captain who was killed in Iraq and falsely accused President Barack Obama and Clinton of being “co-founders” of Islamic State.
The recent shakeup in the leadership of the Trump campaign suggests we may see more of Trump unscripted, not less.
Asked about Trump’s comments this morning on the “Today” show, Clinton’s running mate, Virginia Sen. Khan attacked Trump on stage at the Democratic National Convention, and he questioned his sacrifices.
Trump responds, “It’s none of your business”.
The New York Times on Sunday catalogued a culture of crisis inside the Trump campaign.
Millennials who support Donald Trump are pushing back against a recent opinion article in USA Today arguing that millennial voters “are too intelligent to vote for Trump”. “In our new poll, Hillary Clinton wins even more lopsided support among the largest generation in American history”.
The ad then plays clips of Republicans speculating on what could be inside Trump’s returns.
“Our state is home to one of the strongest government transparency laws in the nation and Floridians expect Donald Trump to follow the example set by every other major-party presidential nominee since 1976”.
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Of course, throughout this election year, critics of Trump and Clinton have posited several theories on how to actually remove either or both of them from their place as nominees: a brokered convention, an Federal Bureau of Investigation indictment, or ongoing rumors that at least one of them might just decide to drop out.
