Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton’s lead over her Republican rival Donald Trump in the race for the White House has been cut in half in the last one month, according to a latest poll.
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She’s raising huge sums of money and flooding airwaves with television advertisements. Meanwhile, 13 states have voted for the Republican nominee in each of those six elections. You have now viewed your allowance of free articles. Hillary Clinton, on the other hand, will never obtain my vote.
The margin of victory will also make a large difference to the effect that Mr Trump’s assertions have in the end, said experts.
Most seasoned political observers, across party lines, will generally agree on one thing: presidential election polls after Labor Day are usually as close an accurate reflection of what’s going to happen on election day. He has teased plans to make childcare more affordable, but has missed his own deadline for unveiling them. “But we need a broader, more tolerant policy”, said Clare Selden, 29, of Boston, who is white and plans to vote for Clinton.
We will find out in a couple of weeks. Efforts to highlight a warmer side of the NY real estate developer at the GOP convention were quickly overshadowed by flaps of his own making.
If Trump can reshape the race, he’ll need to do so quickly.
The former secretary of state raised a combined $143 million in August for her campaign, the Democratic National Committee and state parties – her best month yet. North Carolinians can start submitting absentee ballots Friday. Yes, it’s hard to see how anyone can win the presidency on the white vote alone.
The findings needed to be qualified by the possible bumps that both candidates typically received from their respective rollouts before the national audience.
At this point, can Clinton turn around all those voters who don’t like or trust her?
Chris Haynes, an assistant professor of political science at University of New Haven and co-author of “Framing Immigrants”, said Trump’s message and the words he used to convey that message last night resonated with his core supporters, who were perplexed of late with his messaging. Clinton has repeatedly said Trump lacks the temperament and knowledge to become president, while he points to what USA investigators say was her “extremely careless” handling of classified material on the unsecured, private email server she used while she was the country’s top diplomat during Obama’s first term from 2009 to 2013.
Trump advisers vigorously dispute that the race has slipped from their grasp.
Voters don’t elect the American president directly, of course, but through the Electoral College, an assembly representing each of the 50 states and the District of Columbia based on the number of legislators they have in Congress.
Sen. Bob Menendez Thursday called Donald Trump’s recent visit to Mexico a “farce” and said the Republican presidential nominee’s immigration speech in Arizona closed the “door” on Hispanic and other minority voters.
The survey, by America’s Voice and Latino Decisions, found that if the election were held today, 70 percent of registeredLatino voters would vote for Hillary Clinton. And among those choosing a candidate, 9 percent said they still could change their minds.
Clinton and running mate Tim Kaine will have an all-star stable of Democrats making that case on their behalf through the fall.
In the primaries, Trump grabbed the spotlight in the opening minutes of the first of a dozen GOP debates, when he was the only candidate to refuse to rule out a third-party run for president. Vice President Joe Biden will camp out in working class areas of OH and Pennsylvania. And nearly all of the few party actors who supported Bernie Sanders wound up endorsing Clinton once the Vermont socialist had lost.
TRUMP: Like many Republicans, he vows to crack down on so-called sanctuary cities that shield residents from federal immigration authorities.
SOLID DEMOCRATIC: California, Connecticut, Delaware, District of Columbia, Hawaii, Illinois, Maine, Maine 2nd District, Massachusetts, Maryland, Minnesota, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, Oregon, Rhode Island, Vermont, Washington state.
Among young whites, more say that Trump would better handle securing the border than Clinton, by a 57 percent to 19 percent margin, while 49 percent say Trump would deal with immigrants who are now living in the United States illegally, versus 31 percent for Clinton.
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It’s easy to understand why foreign-policy experts are the party actors most likely to abandon Trump, and even endorse Clinton.
