“This is the most unpredictable electoral season that I certainly can remember and I am running against someone who will say or do anything”.
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The potential for fireworks means that the first face-off between the two nominees is expected to draw a big audience and, on Monday, Clinton suggested that she knows that the stakes are high.
“Clinton is holding onto an underlying advantage over Trump among key voting blocs”, Patrick Murray, director of the Monmouth University Polling Institute, told The Hill.
The campaign is now targeting the battleground states of New Hampshire, Iowa, Nevada, Virginia, and Colorado, putting Trump on the air in a total of nine states.
Hillary Clinton is still 7 points ahead of Donald Trump nationally, according to a new Monmouth University Poll, but her lead has decreased from earlier this month. Geographically, the poll found Clinton leads in Southeast Florida, 56 percent to 31 percent; while Trump is strong in Northern Florida, leading his Democratic rival 52 percent to 33 percent, and in Southwest Florida, where he’s ahead 52 percent to 35 percent.
He may be getting union votes but Trump managed to stir up controversy once again this month when he addressed the African-American voters of MI in front of a predominately white crowd, according to CNN: “You’re living in poverty, your schools are no good, you have no jobs, 58% of your youth is unemployed – what the hell do you have to lose?”
Donald Trump has said he plans to clarify his stance in a speech in Arizona on Wednesday, but until then, even one of Georgia’s staunchest opponents of illegal immigration isn’t clear about where the Trump campaign will land on the issue. Nevertheless, the Trump campaign is optimistic that time remains for a turnaround, a position buttressed by the new ad buy.
This story originally appeared on Adage’s Campaign Trail.
“Donald Trump will articulate what we do with the people who are here”, Pence said Sunday on CNN’s “State of the Union”.
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“There was really no policy beyond building a wall”. “[Florida] is a big deal”, Brown said by phone from CT.
