And a new poll shows two-thirds of Americans believe her – with Donald Trump supporters leading the way. “He’s even created a new tax loophole that we call the Trump loophole because it’s really good for Trump”.
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Bitzer said the first ad is clearly aimed at Trump’s base of support.
So even 82 days before the election, appearances like Clinton’s in Cleveland and Trump’s earlier this week in Youngstown – are aimed as much at getting out the vote of their supporters as they are at winning over new voters.
Trump has tried to brush off the calls, increasingly turning to security and immigration issues on the campaign trail – but Clinton and the Democrats have focused sharply on Trump’s taxes, pushing speculation that they may show links to Russian oligarchs or some other political damaging detail. According to Real Clear Politics, Clinton has had an average lead of 2.3 points over Trump in the polls. Former New Mexico Gov. Gary Johnson, the Libertarian candidate, earned 10% while Jill Stein, the Green Party nominee, got 4%.
As a candidate, Bill Clinton was dogged in 1992 by questions about his honesty, but voters ultimately viewed him as a better caretaker of the economy, which had stumbled during President George H.W. Bush’s administration.
Sixty-three percent of Clinton backers polled said they expected the nominee to push forward with the Obama agenda. Donald Trump’s campaign has broken a number of paradigms, including not buying linear TV ads.
The survey as a whole painted a pessimistic view of the future beyond the candidates. Republican National Committee chairman Reince Priebus said in a statement that Clinton’s tax plan would “kill jobs, reduce wages and hurt economic growth” and her prior Senate votes showed “she can’t be trusted to look out for the middle class”.
That is largely because Trump polls badly with voters from the Philadelphia suburbs.
The Clinton campaign published an ad Wednesday that accuses the Republican nominee of hiding something by not releasing his returns.
Borick said the race isn’t at all a done deal yet.
Democrats, meanwhile have remained largely supportive of free trade agreements.
Trump tweeted Thursday “They will soon be calling me MR. BREXIT!”
Voters were split on the question of whether the proposed Trans-Pacific Partnership would be good for the US, with one in four voters undecided.
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Some of these attitudes are a function of opposition to the Obama administration and/or the candidacy of Trump.
