For instance Ohio Gov. John Kasich got the support of 26 percent of black voters when he ran for reelection in 2014.
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The poll showed 40 percent of likely voters supporting Trump and 39 percent backing Clinton for the week of August 26 to September 1. She has settled into the mid-40 percent range, presenting an opportunity for her Republican rival. Two months from Election Day, Hillary Clinton holds a clear adv. Trump has also called for an end to “birthright citizenship”, now granted to anyone born in the United States.
CLINTON: She promises to propose immigration legislation in her first 100 days that would include a route to citizenship.
“It’s not in the bag for her yet”, Patrick Murray, the polling director at Monmouth University, told The Hill.
Clinton takes a roughly 4-point lead over Trump nationwide in the latest RealClearPolitics average of polls.
Bob Paduchik, Trump’s state director who ran both of George W. Bush’s successful campaigns in OH and Sen. By contrast, 58 percent of Latinos say Hillary Clinton has made the Democratic Party “more welcoming” to them. Trump was warmly received by the group, including Daphne Goggins, a local Republican official, who wiped away tears as she introduced herself to Trump, saying she’s been a Republican most her life, but, “for the first time in my life, I feel like my vote is going to count”.
“They’re both hitting ceilings of support due to their hugely negative favorability ratings”, said GOP pollster David Winston.
However, the RCP average is now at about 4 points, though Trump trails by large margins in such key battleground states as OH and Pennsylvania.
Opinion polls show that Trump has low support among black and Hispanic voters. US presidential elections are not decided by a national popular vote, but rather in state-by-state contests, with each state’s importance in the outcome weighted according to its population.
Things look better for Trump in Nevada, Iowa and North Carolina. The difference between the two candidates in the new polls is near or within the surveys’ margins of error.
Trump and Flake in the past had already clashed, exchanging sharp words when the Arizona senator confronted the former in a meeting with elected Republicans on Capitol Hill.
Clinton’s poll numbers have dropped in recent weeks amid further revelations about her use of a private email server while secretary of state and regarding connections between Clinton Foundation donors and the State Department during and after her tenure at the agency. But the way Trump explains Clinton’s bigotry – calling her out for failed urban policy preferences and because she “sees people of color only as votes” – is more than a bit hypocritical.
Pennsylvania will be the toughest state of the group for Trump. If she holds Trump off in Wisconsin and defends her remaining leads, a victory in any of the several states now considered toss-ups would be enough for a November victory.
A Monmouth poll released on Tuesday found Clinton ahead by 8 points in the Keystone State, which is more in line with most other recent surveys. None of the information has yielded a smoking gun but the ongoing disclosures have contributed to an erosion in her lead.
Still, Clinton’s advantage is a strong one.
Even more damning, though, is that Trump takes his voters for granted in precisely the same way. “It’s a tough route”.
Flake indicated a hint of praise for Trump’s rival, Hillary Clinton, who has recently urged the Republicans to remember that the businessman’s claims that Mexicans are “rapists” and refugees a “Trojan horse” of terrorism do not reflect their party.
“Even if a candidate like Donald Trump was telling the truth about the conditions in some impoverished communities of color, it’s hard to receive it because he has been so flat-out disrespectful and inconsiderate of African-Americans and people of color and their contributions to this country”, Wilkerson said.
The Republican nominee must improve his standing with voters who are not white men to have a chance.
Phone volunteer James McMillian of Newark, Ohio, makes a call seeking support for Hillary Clinton at the Ohio Together Hillary Clinton campaign office in Newark, Ohio, Thursday, Sept. 1, 2016.
Some pollsters actually believe Clinton’s level of support is being underestimated. 7% go for Gary Johnson and again 2% for Jill Stein.
In a separate question in the poll that included alternative-party candidates, Clinton and Trump were tied at 39 per cent.
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Clinton raised about $143 million in August for her presidential bid and the Democratic Party, her campaign announced.
