Their return to North Carolina follows a Labor Day weekend campaign blitz in the battlegroud state of OH where the candidates mingled with voters at a fair, a parade and a brewery as the race entered its final, frenzied two months.
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A new CNN poll out Tuesday suggests Trump has pulled ahead of Clinton by a mere 2 percentage points among likely voters.
Libertarian Party nominee Gary Johnson got 7 per cent support, while Green Party nominee Jill Stein got 2 per cent in the poll. With the first event from the Commission on Presidential Debates only a few weeks away, no third party candidate is now tracking at the 15% minimum support required for stage accessibility for that Long Island, NY event.
Hillary Clinton stopped short of accusing Russian Federation of engaging the United States in a “cyberwar” but said the hacking of the Democratic National Committee was committed by Russian Federation for the goal of influencing the outcome of the presidential election. For example, the report showed Trump leading in OH, but trailing Clinton in Texas.
FiveThirtyEight’s election forecast also shows Clinton well positioned to succeed, though Trump’s odds have improved quite a bit since the first week in August. Trump’s chances rose to 28 percent from 10 percent during that period.
However, in a four-way match that includes Johnson (12 percent) and Stein (four per cent), Clinton (41 per cent) has a four-point lead over Trump (37 per cent). Also, going just by the demographics, Johnson is pulling more from groups where Clinton has typically done well, so conservative support for Johnson as a third party option may not prove terribly productive.
Voters younger than 45 give Mrs Clinton an edge (54 per cent to 29 per cent for Mr Trump), while non-whites favour Clinton by nearly four-to-one, poll results showed.
OH is considered one of four swing states – those that are not clearly in the Democratic or Republican camp – that could prove decisive in the Electoral College vote that will ultimately determine the victor.
The two major candidates are both unliked; 54 percent view Trump unfavorably and 56 percent see Clinton unfavorably. Trump was set to campaign in the swing states of Virginia, North Carolina, and Florida later this week. And when voters were asked to name the one issue that would be most important to their vote for president, 5% named honesty or trustworthiness as their top choice, ranking it on par with foreign policy and jobs.
Clinton, traveling with her press corps for the first time on a new plane emblazoned with her campaign slogan, “Stronger together”, said on Monday she had enjoyed the “last moment before the mad dash” to the finish line and that she was “more than ready” for the next nine weeks. At every stop, Clinton argues that Trump is temperamentally unfit to serve as commander-in-chief, warning that his bluster would damage the nation’s longstanding alliances.
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The CNN/ORC Poll was conducted by telephone September 1-4 among a random national sample of 1,001 adults. This sampling included 886 registered voters and 786 likely voters.
