“I think for Hillary Clinton the challenge is: How does she expose the deficiencies in what he said or proposed without sounding pedantic?”
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Who: “NBC Nightly News” anchor Lester Holt will moderate the debate between Clinton and Trump.
The poll released Wednesday shows Clinton with a 44 to 42 percent lead against Republican nominee Donald Trump among likely voters.
NY voters also support a pathway for citizenship by a three-to-one margin for those immigrants now here illegally, and they also believe that climate change is a significant threat to the planet.
But Trump holds the edge on being honest and straightforward (41 percent say Trump is better here, versus 31 percent who say Clinton is). This is the NBC/WSJ poll’s first general-election poll of likely voters in the 2016 race.
Clinton has launched numerous attacks on Trump’s rhetoric and scandals, but the poll shows none have stuck to Trump the way the email story has stuck to Clinton.
Still, the polls tilted in her favor and projected a win for her in November.
The poll tracks more than 15,000 American voters weekly, and Reuters reports it “could end in a photo finish” as Clinton and Trump are running almost even in the Electoral College, the entity that ultimately elects the president. The poll has a plus or minus 4-percentage point margin of error.
Reuters says that Pennsylvania has been moved from a likely win for Clinton to a tossup; OH has been moved from a tossup to a likely win for Clinton.
The poll also finds President Barack Obama’s job-approval rating at 52 percent – unchanged from last month.
“Overall”, Reuters reported, “Americans appear to be relatively uninspired by their choices for president”.
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It also finds that Clinton is running almost even with Trump when it comes to voter enthusiasm.
