In the latest McClatchy-Marist poll, Clinton and Tim Kaine have a wide lead over Donald Trump and Mike Pence, commanding 15-point lead over Trump in the presidential contest. Tim Kaine, and a 10-point lead in MI, one of the industrial Midwestern states that Trump has vowed to contest.
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Yet another poll released since the Democratic National Convention ended last week shows Hillary Clinton with a substantial and apparently holding lead against her Republican challenger, Donald Trump. “And I think she (Clinton) did a better job of that.”The poll surveyed 321 Democrats, 257 Republicans and 83 independents, a mix picked to reflect the statewide voter rolls”. That could depress Republicans’ willingness to respond to a pollster and their enthusiasm about voting, but probably only temporarily. Please see our terms of service for more information.
“I don’t know”, Giuliani continued.
Leaders of Trump’s Republican Party last week distanced themselves from his spat with Khizr and Ghazala Khan, the American Muslim Gold Star parents who criticized Trump at last month’s Democratic National Convention.
Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich said Trump “should have done that in the first place”, but has “gotten the messages” from other Republicans to unify the divided GOP.
Gov. John Kasich, says, “Thought it was a little weird”.
“He’s going to win parts of OH, where people are really hurting”. There will be sections he will win because people are angry, frustrated and haven’t heard any answers.
“I think what he’s taking about is the very unfair media coverage that Republicans get”. But I still think it’s hard if you are dividing to be able to win in Ohio. An economic adviser to the campaign, Stephen Moore, who helped work on the speech, said Trump’s policies were aimed at boosting economic growth in an effort to bolster middle-class workers, whose wages have stagnated for decades. Gore, the sitting vice president at the time, went on to win the popular vote by about half a percentage point while losing to George W. Bush in the Electoral College.
So with all the negative numbers, why is Clinton so far ahead in recent polls?
Republicans in central NY are still angry with Rep. Richard Hanna (R-Barneveld) and his decision to back Democrat Hillary Clinton instead of Republican Donald Trump in the race for president. On Thursday, she is set to deliver her own economic speech in Detroit, a city that has symbolized the nation’s manufacturing plight. 4, gave Clinton a lead of 46%-36%.
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Still, only 27 percent of voters feel Trump has the right temperament to be president – down from 37 percent in July – while a majority, 67 percent, say he does not, according to the poll. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution poll of Georgia, taken July 30-Aug. Most notable of all is Virginia, a traditionally contested state that looks to be decidedly in Clinton’s column now considering she enjoys a 12-point lead there.
