Trump’s hastily-scheduled trip to meet with Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto comes just as the latest national poll showed Clinton in a statistical tie with her Republican rival.
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Her haul in August is more than 50 percent higher than both the total that Clinton raised in July and that President Obama, himself a prodigious fundraiser, collected during the same period four years ago.
The Republican presidential nominee, who faced a mid-August deficit of almost 8 points in the RealClearPolitics head-to-head polling average against Clinton, his Democratic opponent, has cut that lead almost in half.
Clinton spent much of August holding high-profile fundraisers in New York, California and MA.
Some Hispanic backers of Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump pulled their support after he stood by his hardline immigration stance and said anyone in the United States illegally would be subject to deportation if he were president.
While Trump continues to lead among white men, 41 to 38 percent, Clinton is still leading among white women, 45 to 38 percent. That is narrower than the 10-point lead that Fox said Clinton had following the Democratic National Convention.
“In the interests of France”, she said, the White House should go to “anyone but Hillary Clinton”. Most polls in the past have shown voters believing Trump is more honest than Clinton. Trump and Clinton are the two major candidates.
“They don’t know it yet they are going to pay for it”.
The economy and jobs remains the top issue on voters’ minds at 52 percent in Virginia followed by terrorism, healthcare, size of government, and immigration.
If everyone voted for the candidate they most agreed with instead of the lesser of two evils between Trump and Clinton, Johnson would be right up in the polls with the two of them. Young voters break yuuuuge for Hillary in every other poll, but here she only leads 45/28. But 18 percent of respondents were undecided.While McGinty is building momentum among likely voters, she appears to be losing ground among registered voters.
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A new USA Today/Suffolk University poll found that the majority of voters are driven more by fear of the other candidate winning than they are by excitement over their preferred candidate winning.
