I congratulate Mike Fernandez for his willingness to articulate numerous serious flaws with Donald Trump as a presidential candidate and for his support and praise for Hillary Clinton (“I’m a Republican, and I’m with Hillary Clinton”, Sept. 1). But they have voted overwhelmingly for Democratic presidential candidates starting in 1936, when Franklin D. Roosevelt got 71 percent of the black vote, and peaking at 96 percent for Barack Obama’s election as the first African-American president in 2008.
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Friday’s poll found the gap separating Clinton and Trump shrinks in a head-to-head matchup.
She enters the fall with a decided advantage, both in terms of history and in this year’s campaign. They back Democrat Hillary Clinton, who supports renegotiating NAFTA with Mexico and Canada and opposes the proposed 12-nation Trans Pacific Partnership pact after praising it as secretary of state. The destinations in Ohio, Pennsylvania, Michigan and New Hampshire point to Clinton’s battleground map of approximately a dozen states that hold the key to the 270 electoral votes needed to claim the presidency. Former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke tweeted, “excellent speech by Donald Trump tonight”.
But Trump’s meeting also highlighted the challenges he faces making inroads with African-Americans and Latinos. Together, Obama won a narrow majority of the Catholic vote, not much different than his national popular vote share. He’s expected to visit a church with a predominantly black congregation while there Saturday.
Mr Trump’s message to immigrant families is clear – everyone must go, Mr Mook alleged. 1, 2 and 3 on that list.
To best position himself over the coming weeks, Trump needs to avoid major gaffes that lead voters to question his judgment and temperament, and keep the focus on Clinton. Yet, Clinton had managed to pull out of Philadelphia with a healthy lead over Trump. There is a receptive audience for change among voters exhausted of eight years of Democratic rule and 25 years of the Clinton family.
In the weeks since the Republican National Convention, the Trump campaign has gone through a number of changes. “We saw the polls freeze and then we saw them drop a point, because all the security moms, it agitated people over 9/11”. Every moment now should be about trying to convince voters that he has the temperament and stability to be president. Meanwhile, Clinton hasn’t been campaigning as actively as Trump.
He might also be wise to take a Twitter holiday, or do whatever the digital equivalent is of putting the indignant letter in the desk drawer overnight and deciding in the morning whether to send it. And 60 percent say Clinton believes she does not have to play by the same rules as everyone else.
CLINTON • She has not directly answered whether she supports sanctuary cities or not, but her campaign said Thursday that “Hillary trusts our local police to make sound decisions about protecting their communities”. When adding Green Party candidate Jill Stein and Libertarian Party candidate Gary Johnson, Clinton’s lead slims to 5 percentage points, with a little over 7 percent of the electorate still largely undecided. “It’s because it’s become socially desirable, if you’re a college- educated person in the United States of America, to say that you’re against Donald Trump”.
At this point, can Clinton turn around all those voters who don’t like or trust her?
Trump turned down invitations to speak to each of those groups, which Wilkerson called “ridiculous”.
But even as she railed against the influence of big money in politics, an unconcerned Clinton raised $143 million in August for Democrats and her campaign with $50,000 a plate fundraisers in celebrity homes.
The election isn’t over, so it’s still possible that Trump could end up in the White House. “If she wins, we will need a strong Republican House to defend against her radical liberal agenda”. “When two-thirds of the people think she’s dishonest and untrustworthy, that’s a real problem”.
Back in 1996, the RNC shifted its messaging and resources away from presidential nominee Bob Dole in October after it was determined that the Kansas senator was too far behind in the polls to defeat Democratic incumbent Bill Clinton.
On trade: Sure, I’m troubled by Trump’s protectionism.
LEANS REPUBLICAN: Arizona, Georgia, Missouri, Nebraska 2nd District, Utah.
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Beyond those states, preference polls show her ahead in Virginia and Colorado, and competing in close contests in North Carolina, Florida and Ohio. His campaign’s lack of experience is going to be tested now, when there are important split-second assessments to be made about what the other side is doing.
