Donald Trump’s campaign manager has claimed there has been media silence over the latest U.S. election polls, which show the GOP candidate closing the gap between himself and his Democrat rival Hillary Clinton.
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Overall, an average of all national polls tracked by RealClear Politics show Clinton (46.1 percent) leading Trump (42 percent) by 4.1 percentage points as of Friday.
Clinton holds an average of 42% support to Trump’s 37% across five nationwide telephone polls conducted between August 9 and 30.
Though Clinton has had a national lead in almost all recent polls, the RealClearPolitics average of polls shows how the race has tightened recently.
Republican Donald Trump leads Democratic Hillary Clinton in Iowa and the two candidates are statistically tied in Virginia, with Mrs. Clinton up by 1 point.
The Commission on Presidential Debates announced the names of the moderators for the three exchanges between Democrat Hillary Clinton and Republican Donald Trump and the single event involving the candidates for vice president.
The Green Partywith its progressive platform, is hoping to position its presidential candidate, Jill Stein, as the alternative for Sanders supporters who do not like Clinton.
Of the total, Clinton raised about $62 million for her campaign committee, roughly the same amount she garnered in July.
“I think it goes back to the dislike that many people have for her”, Malone said.
Johnson draws support from eight percent (8%) of Republicans, three percent (3%) of Democrats and 12% of unaffiliated voters.
“Clearly we’ve got a two-party system”, state Democratic Party Chair Rick Palacio said, when asked why anti-Trump Republicans would vote for Clinton rather than Gary Johnson. Clinton leads among white women (45 to 38 percent) and nonwhite voters (70 to 25 percent), and Trump leads with white men (41 to 38 percent). John McCain, R-Ariz. President George W. Bush, running for his second term, easily raised more than Democratic nominee John Kerry in 2004. Trump has a much slimmer 3 point lead over Clinton in the district. But voters still don’t expect big changes if Clinton wins in November.
Both candidates have said they’d authorize Medicare to negotiate drug prices.
The Trump campaign has not released any fundraising numbers for the month yet, but it’s certain to be far less than this, and it’s unlikely that Trump will be investing personal funds like this into the campaign.
Seventy-year-old Trump is a real estate billionaire from NY and a realty television star who joined politics only about a year ago.
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The poll of 1,958 adults age 18-30 was conducted August 1-14 using a sample drawn from the probability-based GenForward panel, which is created to be representative of the US young adult population.
