Donald Trump leads Hillary Clinton by five points in the race for the White House, a Rasmussen poll showed Thursday, less than a week before the candidates go head-to-head in the first presidential debates. “It’s pretty clear that being off the campaign trail for much of August did not do her campaign any favors”.
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Despite a recent effort to court African-American voters, Trump garners just 7% support compared to Clinton’s 81% with the voting bloc.
“I am going to do my very best to communicate as clearly and fearlessly as I can in the face of the insults and the attacks and the bullying and bigotry that we’ve seen coming from my opponent”, Clinton said on The Steve Harvey Show on Tuesday, “I can take that kind of stuff”. Good news, though: The presidential debate is, finally, nearly here. That survey of 659 likely Virginia voters was also conducted from September 13 to September 21 with a margin of error of 3.8 percent. And Trump holds a 2-point advantage, 39-37 percent, in a Reuters/Ipsos survey.
Definitely worth noting, that one: Trump has a 44 percent to 34 percent lead among independents in Virginia.
Voters said their biggest concern with the candidates was Trump’s comments and language about women, immigrants, and Muslims, with 54 percent citing that.
Hillary Clinton’s lead over Donald Trump among likely Virginia voters is tightening, according to a new Roanoke College Poll.
The poll found that 71 percent of likely Latino voters say they will vote for Clinton, with 18 percent saying Trump. Interestingly, half of Trump’s likely voters say they will vote for him because they are against Clinton.
By a 49 percent-to-47 percent margin, registered voters say they prefer a president who will bring major changes to the way the government operates, even if those changes might be unpredictable – though that margin is less than it was back in July. That’s compared with 45 percent who agree with the Clinton message that the country is making progress and the economy has come back.
The survey by the Florida Atlantic University Business and Economics Polling Initiative shows Clinton with close to two-to-one leads or greater over Trump in North Carolina, Ohio, Colorado and Nevada, with the Republican closest to his rival in Florida. While 56 percent said Clinton has the right temperament and 60 percent said she has the knowledge and experience necessary to handle the job, just 23 percent said the same of Trump on both issues.
Clinton also said that heroin use was an epidemic throughout America and that she wanted to see her mother work on diverting non-violent drug offenders into treatment programs, not prisons.
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Trump has continued that tradition this week by admitting that President Barack Obama was born in the USA after years of questioning the commander in chief’s birth certificate.
