US Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton’s campaign raised record $143 million in August, her campaign team has announced.
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“The average suggests Clinton has taken a bigger hit, losing seven points since early August while Trump dipped just two points”. Trump got 32.8 percent while Clinton had 44.8 percent.
Of the total, around $62 million went to the Clinton campaign, and roughly $81 million was raised for the Democratic Party and state parties across the country through joint fundraising accounts, the Clinton campaign said in a news release on Thursday, Xinhua news agency reported. Libertarian nominee Gary Johnson received 7 percent; Green Party nominee Jill Stein got 3 percent.
As per RealClearPolitics.com, which keeps tracks of all major national polls, Clinton is leading Trump by 4.9 percentage points in the average of all major polls.
Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton poses for a photograph with neighborhood children following a fundraiser at a private home in Sagaponack, N.Y., Tuesday, Aug. 30, 2016. Clinton led by 8 points last week, according to NBC.
The poll – while still the outlier and with results within the survey’s margin of error – marks the first time Trump has led Clinton in a national poll since mid-July.
Do their parties support their candidates? “Bill won in 1992 with 43 percent of the vote, and was reelected in ’96 with 49 percent; both times, thanks to Ross Perot splitting the anti-Clinton majority vote three ways”, Huckabee said Friday on his Facebook page.
“I believe the alternative of a Trump presidency would be disastrous, not just for our country but for the whole world”, says Carol Fisher, 56, a Clinton supporter and registered nurse from Teaneck, New Jersey.
In the latest Reuters/Ipsos poll, more than 20 percent of likely voters opted for a choice other than the two major nominees, whether an alternative candidate, “would not vote” or “unsure”. Trump is maintaining leads in less populated and more rural areas such as the northeast (42 to 35 percent), the northwest (64 to 24 percent) and central Pennsylvania (50 to 31 percent).
On the future of Medicare, 53 percent of voters said they trusted Clinton, compared to 38 percent trusting Trump.
The split on Medicaid was 54 percent trusting Clinton and 37 percent trusting Trump.
According to the recent polls, four percent (4%) of the respondents favored Stein.
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The Kaiser foundation poll was conducted from August 18-24 among a nationally representative random digit dial telephone sample of adults that included 1,020 registered voters.
