“As Clinton stumbles, Trump takes an apparent slim lead in new tracking poll”-the headline to Lauter’s story about the survey-which “marks a significant shift in a race that most polls indicated Clinton has led since mid-May”.
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These states are among the most racially diverse presidential battlegrounds, with large shares of Hispanic or African-American voters, the daily reported. The poll showed that two-thirds or more of Americans do not consider the GOP businessman to be even somewhat civil, honest, likable or qualified for office.
Today, in news of the obvious: A poll of Democrats and Republicans has revealed that neither party’s voters are too happy with their respective candidates. It reverted red in 2012, but polling has shown Clinton competitive there, drawing significant support from minority communities.
Mr Kaine is widely seen as the “safe choice” to become Hillary Clinton’s vice-presidential running mate, and that may be the biggest mark against him.
The Republican candidate for president does, however, have a video posted to his Facebook page featuring a spoof of Pokemon Go, with “Crooked Hillary” as a Pokemon character.
Trump had 34 percent favorable and 61 percent unfavorable, for a net negative rating of 27 points.
In March, 9 percent said they were undecided.
They also are much more likely to think women, LGBT people, Hispanics, Muslims and blacks would be better off under Clinton, while they largely think men and whites would be better off under Trump.
“For me, he’s a piece of trash”, Lopez said.
The convention will also have a almost all-white slate of speakers, whichLos Angeles Times columnist Melissa Batchelor Warnke noted would hurt the Republican Party and its efforts to reach out to more diverse voter demographics. But 49 percent of Democrats say it’s a minor problem, while just 29 percent don’t think it’s a problem at all. Republicans are expected to formally nominate Trump during their four-day gathering next week in Cleveland.
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Clinton had been under FBI investigation over the security and storage of her emails while Secretary of State, though the agency eventually recommended no charges be filed. “I think she’s in a very strong position. We can’t have somebody in office who is going to lie to us”. Independent voters are slightly more likely to name Clinton (39%) than Trump (30%) as the candidate who best represents their views on health care, though almost a quarter (23%) say “neither” does.
