According to the poll, 36% of voters were afraid that their access to affordable care would be jeopardized under a Trump presidency, while 24% had the same concern with a Clinton presidency.
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Of the total, around $62 million went to the Clinton campaign, and roughly $81 million was raised for the Democratic Party and state parties across the country through joint fundraising accounts, the Clinton campaign said in a news release on Thursday, Xinhua news agency reported.
The August hauls included a lucrative two-week swing of high-dollar events in the moneyed East Coast vacation spots of Martha’s Vineyard and the Hamptons, along with star-studded luncheons in Los Angeles and gatherings with high-tech leaders in Silicon Valley.
In a heat-to-head match-up, however, Clinton held a 6-point edge over Trump and led him 48 percent to 42 percent.
The radio special will explore the candidates’ most formative experiences and dive into aspects of their personalities that have turned into liabilities with voters: Hillary Clinton’s need for privacy and Donald Trump’s desire for public attention.
Trump, the Republican nominee, gained ground on his Democratic rival in a Fox News Poll this week.
Clinton’s lead over Trump in the battleground state of Wisconsin shrunk in two polls published Wednesday.
National polls have tightened since the end of two major parties’ national convention in late July, but Clinton maintains leads in nearly all battleground states.
“Trump supporters are so die-hard that it’s highly unlikely they’re going to vote for Democratic candidates”, said GOP strategist Ron Bonjean.
Johnson draws support from 8% of Republicans, 3% of Democrats, and 12% of unaffiliated voters.
But in Iowa, Clinton trails Trump by five percentage points, indicating that the race to the White House is tightening now.
Clinton spend most of the month of August working the Democratic fundraising circuit and trying to amass a war chest to use against Republican Donald Trump. In Jones’ case, he pledged earlier this year he would back Trump, but eased off that in a radio interview in August after the fallout this summer from Trump’s attacks on a Gold Star family. That means Clinton’s lead has been cut in half since her post-convention bounce when she led by 10 points.
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The numbers were gathered from the Reuters/Ipsos polls conducted from June 26 to July 26, where more than 5,000 respondents participated.
