Said Prof Altschuler: “I think those appeals were to get white suburban women to believe that he is not a racist and that he is a reasonable choice”.
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In contrast, Col. LaVerne Anderson, retired from the Army after almost 43 years of service and chairman of Iowa Veterans for Trump, said revelations about Clinton’s mishandling of sensitive intelligence material “should disqualify her as being president”. And Lauer, who is apparently a journalist of some sort, did a really great job of letting Trump lie to his face and get away with it, so it looks like we’re one step closer to having President TeenyHands paint the Oval Office in gold trim. The lone exception: George W. Bush during his re-election campaign in 2004, when 52% thought he would outperform John Kerry before their first debate.
On Wednesday night Trump did cite a 2004 article in Esquire that apparently shows he opposed the war, but since the U.S. invasion of Iraq began in March 2003, this doesn’t quite work.
Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton waves after speaking at a rally at Johnson C. Smith University in Charlotte, N.C., Thursday, Sept. 8, 2016.
Franks said that Trump knows very well that Putin is “a thug”, and was arguing Putin has advanced socialism more aggressively than Obama has defended democracy.
Overall, two-thirds of voters say they are more interested in watching this year’s debates than previous ones; just a quarter say they are less interested. The daughter of former Republican Virginia Gov. Lynwood Holton, Holton was Virginia’s secretary of education but stepped down in July when Clinton tapped Kaine as her running mate.
In the interview at the time Trump said: “I would never have handled it that way”. Yes, they’re pissed at Lauer now, but he actually may have done Hillary a favor last night. The public is split on that issue, with 51% saying his approach would unnecessarily put the country at risk while 48% say his approach would instead be a necessary shake-up in Washington. At the Associated Press, Journolist alum Lisa Lerer and Catherine Lucey wrote that Trump “seemed to skate by”. Trump’s critics slammed him for being short on specifics and some hitting Clinton for her defensive demeanor.
And while that’s good news for her Republican opponent, it might not be good enough.
“They have said they hope he is the president because it would give even more motivation to every jihadi”, Clinton said.
A four-way matchup of all the candidates now stands to benefit Clinton, as she would pick up New Mexico and Iowa and top Donald Trump 332-206 in the Electoral College count.
The CNN/ORC poll was conducted by telephone September 1-4 among a random national sample of 1,001 adults.
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The Post poll was an online survey of 74,886 registered voters in the United States, including 741 registered voters in Kansas. In Florida and North Carolina the margin of error is 3.6 percentage points; the polls in OH and Pennsylvania have margins of error of 3.5 percentage points.
