LISA DESJARDINS: The fight for OH meant a fight for space on the Cleveland tarmac today. Polls are usually taken over two or three days by phone. Clinton’s outperforming President Obama in 2012 at this point in the race (relative to how Obama fared against Romney), but the trend has shifted back toward Trump. He also lashed out at the proposed Trans-Pacific Partnership as “a catastrophe”.
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Over the weekend, Trump engaged in battle with a fellow Republican, Sen.
“If that were me”, Trump said, “I’d say, ‘You know what folks, I respect you a lot, let’s close the doors, let’s get out of here'”.
Clinton and Trump were each joined by their running mates in OH, a signal of the importance each campaign places on the Buckeye State.
Donald Trump can not win this election unless he wins a state that Mitt Romney lost in 2012.
Trump, the GOP nominee, is ahead 46 to 45 percent in OH, and the two candidates are tied at 47 percent each in Florida.
Clinton has questioned Trump’s temperament and preparation to serve as commander in chief while seeking to connect the reality television star to the extreme “alt-right” movement within the Republican Party. It was a near-encounter that even forced the Trump press corps to the side of the road as Clinton’s motorcade whizzed by.
Johnson has also consciously emphasized his support on issues that he agrees with Democrats on like criminal justice and immigration reform.
Clinton will have millions of dollars at her disposal this fall to air television advertising and power a sophisticated get-out-the vote operation in key states. Democratic voters in both states seem to be softening a bit from last month. Behind Clinton, running mate Tim Kaine clapped while the audience laughed in response. “There are so many of them that I’ve lost track of them”, she told journalists.
But even despite the ocean between Trump and Clinton, it’s easy to see how people might be undecided yet in this election, especially given the new prominence that Johnson and Stein have this year.
Labor Day in Detroit, a parade of curb-to-curb union members, lines of trucks, and one retired worker, former President Bill Clinton. He warned that a Trump presidency would bring about economic stagnation for middle class workers. (North Carolina was polled twice.) Florida, Ohio and Pennsylvania were all polled by the same outfit a month ago, during the peak of Hillary Clinton’s recent national poll numbers. The New York businessman also claimed “tremendous” support in states like Florida and Pennsylvania. Trump has criticized Clinton’s record in public office and questioned her honesty and qualifications for the White House. “I’ve been just waiting for this moment”, said Clinton, perhaps in gentle jest, to media in the back of her plane.
Out of all 50 states, Stein tops out at 10 percent in Vermont, the home state of former presidential candidate Bernie Sanders, whose supporters the Green Party candidate has hoped to poach from Clinton. It was aimed at rebutting Clinton’s arguments that she would be best positioned to lead the military and reassuring Republicans who have openly anxious that his provocative statements might undermine U.S. alliances.
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Under extensive criticism from her rival and journalists for not holding a full press conference in nine months, Clinton welcomed reporters on her plane and briefly entertained questions before taking off from NY.
