A cascade of new polls this week suggest close contests in key states such as Virginia – the home of Clinton’s running mate – and MI, where Democrats have won every cycle since 1992.
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Clinton is still ahead of the game in a separate national Reuters poll, which shows her leading Trump by 4 percent.
The same poll found that Trump had an eight-point lead over Clinton in Iowa, another state that Obama won in both presidential elections, according to CNN. And in Virginia, Clinton and Trump were virtually tied at 40% to 37%.
The first presidential debate should put a new perspective on presidential candidates for undecided voters.
“The Democrats are kind of coming home”, Shapard said.
Still, she returned to the campaign trail with a trip to the crucial swing state of North Carolina and insisted she is in a “strong position”. Recent polls also show that people are likely to vote for third party candidates.
One of the most striking takeaways from the poll findings this week is that even with all of Trump’s controversies and polarizing comments, Clinton is still struggling to stitch together key parts of the Obama coalition. Bob Dole won the state with 48.3 percent of the vote, besting incumbent President Bill Clinton’s 40.4 percent. “They should disarm, right?” Although the Second Amendment people, maybe there is. It jumped on the statement, saying it made Trump unfit to be president, rather than explaining Clinton’s policies don’t aim to take away Second Amendment rights. “They’re not making us play defense anywhere”.
In response to the magnate’s remarks on Friday, Democratic Congressman Chris Murphy told Trump Saturday that if Clinton is assassinated, “the blood will be on your hands”.
Garin, an adviser to the pro-Clinton super PAC Priorities USA Action, suggested that, in the long run, there could be an advantage to Trump’s calmer demeanor for his Democratic opponent.
Her campaign is setting up a series of speeches about her plans.
Meanwhile, if the election were held today, Trump would be projected to win Florida’s 29 electoral votes.
Jeanette Mendez, chairwoman of the political science department at Oklahoma State University, said Trump’s lackluster support in Oklahoma could reflect the fact that the real estate mogul doesn’t resonate well with the state’s evangelical Christian voters.
“I have been involved in politics one way or another for many years”.
White House press secretary Josh Earnest said “with regard to an apology, I don’t think the President much cares”. “When it comes to public service, I am better at the service part than the public part”. If she gets to pick her judges, nothing you can do folks.
In New Hampshire this week, for example, Republican Sen.
Clinton campaign manager Robby Mook said Trump’s comments in Miami fit a disturbing pattern of encouraging violence. “I could stand in the middle of 5th Avenue and shoot somebody and I wouldn’t lose voters”, he said.
She also led Trump 46 to 44 in a recent CBS News/NY Times poll, reaching the same exact results in an Economist/YouGov poll on September 13.
She cast Mrs Clinton – herself a former first lady and Mr Obama’s one-time rival – as the only candidate capable of fulfilling what she called “the highest-stakes, most 24/7 job that you could imagine”.
‘The more our own people see that it’s important to vote, and a tight race sort of speaks to that urgency, the more of them will turn out, ‘ she said.
He turned quite serious when speaking about voting.
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‘So it works to our advantage’.
