Fifty-eight percent said they view Clinton unfavorably; 40 percent said they viewed the former Secretary of State favorably.
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Speaking to CNN’s Anderson Cooper in her first national news interview in almost a month, Clinton pushed back against Trump’s accusations and issued perhaps her most succinct answers on her use of a private email server during her time leading the State Department.
“She paints decent Americans as racists”, he said to angry jeers. “And we’re going to do everything we can to make sure that good work continues”.
She added that Trump “is very much peddling bigotry and prejudice and paranoia”.
Hillary Clinton said Friday her family’s foundation is “looking for partners” to help separate its work from her potential election as president, but again insisted that such an effort would take “a long time”.
The Mason Dixon poll of registered Florida voters has Clinton with 44 percent and Trump with 42 percent.
She’s also extending a hand to skeptical Republicans, as she tries to lure them away from trump.
“The reason a lot of Klan members like Donald Trump is because a lot of what he believes, we believe in”, a KKK Imperial Wizard says at the beginning of the ad.
“Clinton also said that Trump’s “disregard for the values that make our country great is profoundly risky”.
Meanwhile, criticism has mounted for days over the allegations that donors to the Clinton Foundation enjoyed an easy access to Clinton during her time in the State Department.
The Associated Press reported this week that more than half the people from outside government who met or spoke by telephone with Clinton in the first half of her term as secretary of state had given money – either personally or through companies or groups – to the foundation.
Asked by Cooper about why she is waiting until a possible presidency to make the changes rather than implement them immediately, Clinton said, “Obviously, there will be some unique circumstances”.
Clinton aides acknowledged that they were going on the offensive against Trump, after weeks of mostly lying low as the businessman endured a series of controversies and missteps resulting in unfavorable news coverage and a drop in national and state polls.
‘He’s brought it into his campaign, ‘ she said.
Hillary Clinton, opening a new blistering line of attack tonight against Donald Trump. I want you to hear these words, and remember these words: “Shame On You”.
He met with a group of black and Latino supporters at his Trump Towers in NY early on Thursday. While Brown seemed disappointed, both ABC and NBC took the opportunity to pounce on Trump and praise Clinton’s attacks.
“This type of rhetoric and repulsive advertising is revolting and completely beyond the pale”, Mark Burns, an African-American pastor who supports Trump, said in a statement.
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Trump held an afternoon rally in New Hampshire – where 94 percent of the population is white – and predicted that Clinton’s speech later that afternoon would be “one of the most brazen attempts at distraction in the history of politics”.
