The Quinnipiac poll shows 47 percent say they’d vote for Trump if the election were held today, compared to 42 percent for Clinton. Also unlikely is the margin: The last four pre-debate polls of Colorado had the race Clinton by one, Clinton by two, Trump by four, Trump by one. Clinton was up 44 – 39 percent September 8.
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Trump has lost ground against Clinton when registered voters are asked which candidate is the stronger leader, 45% say Clinton is, 43% Trump.
“He abuses his power, games the system, and puts his own interests ahead of the country’s”, Clinton said during a rally in Toledo, one of two stops she was making in Ohio.
Among swing states, the margin between Trump and Clinton narrowed the most in Colorado, North Carolina and Pennsylvania.
Clinton beats Trump 47 percent to 42 percent in a four-way race among likely voters nationwide, according to a CNN/ORC poll, while Johnson got 7 percent of support and Stein 2 percent.
Clinton made no mention of Trump’s taxes during her events in North Carolina on Sunday.
Hillary Clinton is seizing upon a New York Times report that Donald Trump had a net loss of more than $915 million in 1995.
“Following what was by most accounts a hard first debate for Donald Trump, our survey finds significant shifts in support in a key voting group: Independents”, said Rachel Bitecofer, assistant director of the Wason Center.
Clinton also said she would push for new steps to crack down on “forced arbitration” fine print that prevents workers and consumers from suing companies, proposals aimed at reducing market concentration and increasing competition, and curbing tax rules that gave corporations and the super-wealthy, like Trump, tax breaks not available to ordinary taxpayers.
“Most significant is perhaps her improved support among younger voters, a critical part of the Obama coalition”, said Quentin Kidd, director of the Wason Center for Public Policy at CNU. The most tantalizing prize for Republicans in the electoral college is within reach for Trump thanks to his strength with the white working class.
While Clinton aides concede Ohio’s demographics are less favorable than other political battlegrounds, they dispute any suggestion that they’re not treating the state as a top-tier target. “Secretary Clinton must close that gap to come back in the Buckeye State”.
The White House is saying that revelations about GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump’s tax history show the need for tax reform and fairness.
“How anyone can lose a dollar, let alone a billion dollars, in the casino industry is beyond me”, she said. The number of undecided voters was 10 percent.
But there’s one newspaper endorsement of Hillary Clinton that, for some reason, she hasn’t tweeted about. Brown said. “Many voters don’t have to think a presidential candidate is a good debater to support their candidate in 2016”.
The poll, conducted entirely after last Monday’s presidential debate, finds Clinton’s supporters increasingly enthusiastic about voting for president this year (50% are extremely or very enthusiastic now, up from 46% earlier in the month), while Trump backers’ enthusiasm has ticked downward, from 58% to 56%.
Fifty percent of OH voters questioned, including 21 percent of Republicans, said Mrs. Clinton won the first presidential debate on September 26. While 59 percent of these voters say their mind is made up, 41 percent could still change their mind and vote for another candidate.
In the November face-off, Trump leads 49 – 38 percent among men, while Clinton leads 53 – 33 percent among women.
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The Republican nominee also linked cyber vulnerabilities to the private email server used by his Democratic opponent, Hillary Clinton. Republicans say 46 – 27 percent that Trump won.
