A new poll released by McClatchy-Marist on September 23 found Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton leading Trump among likely voters by 48 percent to 41 percent, reports POLITICO.
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– The presidential debates between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump could be the make-or-break moments that sway voters in the remaining six weeks before election day.
According to analysts, this debate could turn out to be the most watched events in television history with an audience expected to exceed 100 million.
Colvin reported from Jersey City, New Jersey.
Those concerns carried throughout the summer and were only addressed this week by the Republican National Committee chairman Reince Priebus who suggested there will be consequences for GOP politicians who failed to get behind presidential candidate Donald Trump.
Philippe Reines, known for his combative style and fierce loyalty to Clinton, will spend the weekend helping Clinton prepare for her first faceoff with Trump on Monday night.
“I think he’s putting himself at an incredible disadvantage”, said Brett O’Donnell, a Republican strategist and veteran debate coach who compared Trump’s decision to a football team failing to scrimmage.
In the WSB poll, Clinton’s 5-point edge with women voters wasn’t enough to overcome the NY businessman’s support among Georgia men, who backed him 52-38 over Clinton.
Shortly after Cruz shared his statement saying he would vote for Trump, Clinton retweeted one of the senator’s tweets from April in which he called on Trump to release his tax returns.
Trump’s campaign does not want to fill his head with facts and figures, but instead, they want him to practice staying focused on bigger themes, such as jobs, terrorism, protecting the homeland and closing borders, rather than picking fights on side issues.
It’s part of Clinton’s exhaustive debate prep this cycle; her campaign has been grappling with how best to tackle Trump without playing into Clinton’s image problems.
Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas, after months of refusing to support Donald Trump, announced his backing for his party’s standard-bearer in a Facebook post Friday. He’s apparently been playing the role of Trump in mock debates with Clinton ever since the party conventions ended. “And Donald Trump is the only thing standing in her way”.
On Thursday, the Trump campaign accepted the resignation of an OH volunteer, Mahoning County chair Kathy Miller, who told the Guardian newspaper, “I don’t think there was any racism until Obama got elected”. “It really depends. People ask me that question, ‘oh you’re going to go out there and do this and that.’ I really don’t know that”. “I think it’s the worst political miscalculation of my lifetime”, Deace wrote in one of a series of tweets. The Clinton campaign will begin airing a new ad Friday that intercuts Trump insulting women with shots of young girls looking in the mirror.
The debate will last ninety minutes with no breaks.
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Others say they are still deciding, between two candidates they don’t particularly like.
