Donald Trump has edged ahead of Hillary Clinton in a poll released Tuesday, the latest to reflect a tightening race as the campaigns kick into high gear after Labor Day.
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Among those likely to vote on November 8, Trump took 45 percent to Clinton’s 43 percent, according to the new CNN/ORC national survey.
Still, a recent Real Clear Politics average poll finds the former first lady topping Trump in the equally critical states of Florida and OH by an average of three and two points respectively, with Trump’s path to the needed 270 electoral votes needed to ascend to the White House looking narrower and narrower.
Kaine said Trump is misleading voters on his foreign policy views while Clinton is offering concrete proposals to defeat the Islamic State group and prevent Iran from obtaining nuclear weapons. “I don’t think there are conflicts of interest”, Clinton said in the ABC interview.
He pointed out that Clinton was “basically out of sight” in August, fundraising with the super-wealthy and spending time at the guest house of Steven Spielberg’s Hamptons mansion. “We’ve never had the nominee of one of our major parties urging the Russians to hack more”, she said.
Watch the report above. Democrats and the Clinton campaign have used those comments in television advertisements airing in several battleground states. Republicans want to lock in spending levels through next year so that Hillary Clinton won’t be able to change them if she’s elected president.
That effort began with appearances on Labor Day by Vice President Joe Biden in Pennsylvania, Bernie Sanders in New Hampshire, and former President Bill Clinton in MI. The rolling national average has Clinton in the lead, 46.2 percent to 42.9 percent.
The CNN/ORC poll showed the Republican presidential nominee with 45% of the vote from likely voters.
Clinton is still the favorite to win the general election by every metric, but the gap is once again narrowing, which is worrisome for those who hoped the race might be over.
Clinton powered through a coughing fit at a Labor Day festival at a Cleveland park, sharply criticizing Trump’s recent trip to Mexico as “an embarrassing global incident”.
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Both Clinton and Trump remain deeply disliked.
