On Friday, Clinton seemed to be on her toes as she tackled questions about the value of the Latino voting bloc to the Democratic party, the emails scandal and whether racism and xenophobia were driving the campaign of her Republican presidential challenger, Donald Trump.
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Trump, who is set to deliver what his campaign calls a major economic speech to the Detroit Economic Club on Monday, has seen his poll numbers falter in several battleground states – including MI – in the wake of the Democratic convention and controversial remarks regarding an American Muslim family whose son was killed in combat for the U.S.in 2004 and Republican officials in Congress.
The added option of third-party candidates Jill Stein and Gary Johnson had little effect on the head-to-head spreads.
Clinton, getting a lift from the Democratic National Convention, took advantage of Trump’s stumbles to surge into the lead in national polls and in many battleground states.
In Georgia, a red state, Clinton is leading 44 percent to 40 percent over Trump, with a 4-point margin of error, according to an Atlanta Journal-Constitution poll conducted August 1-4. A recent New York Times report said that Trump’s narrow path to a November victory means he must win in Pennsylvania (which no Republican has won since 1988), OH and Florida while keeping North Carolina in the GOP column. The first: Donald Trump may not stay stupid forever, and therefore Hillary will have to beat him on the central economic issue of growth. But so far the Democratic nominee is gaining where it matters most, notably in Florida, Pennsylvania, New Hampshire and elsewhere. Self-described independents were split, 26% for Clinton to 24% for Trump, with a huge number – 31% – undecided.
“I can tell you everybody would say, ‘Put Ivanka in, put Ivanka in, ‘ you know that, right?” And you know, I win. She and I worked together on a proposal that will revolutionize higher education in America.
Some commentators have openly speculated that many Sanders supporters, angry at Hillary Clinton and the Democratic Party for the way they handled the primary process, would defect to Trump, attracted by his anti-establishment fervor. 57% of those who said they were voting for Trump were doing so as a vote against Clinton.
During a 2012 presidential debate, the former MA governor mentioned receiving binders of resumes from women seeking jobs with the state. “I don’t think the poll was very scientific at all”. She was falling behind Trump the previous week as he led by 3 points-48 percent to 45 percent.
Bernie Sanders (D-VT). As Republican opponent Donald Trump appeared to implode all week from a devastating string of self-inflicted wounds, Clinton was riding on a wave of positive post-convention polling news averaging her from six to 12 percentage points ahead of Trump.
A new poll out last week from the highly respected McClatchy-Marist poll group, shows how unpopular Trump is among millennials.
An aide to Ryan said Friday, “He appreciates the gesture and is going to continue to focus on earning the endorsement of the voters in southern Wisconsin”. That is nothing like a Central Intelligence Agency agent explaining that your vulnerable ego has been exploited by Putin and you are an “unwitting agent of the Russian Federation”. She also took the opportunity to blast her republican rival, Donald Trump, and the racist rhetoric that he often spews.
“Clinton is highly qualified to be commander in chief”, Morell wrote. Clinton essentially repeated her dictum that we’ll love her when she’s successful at her job and then pointed to her 67 percent approval rate while she was a Senator before President Obama tapped her to become Secretary of State.
Trump is not only unqualified for the job, but he may well pose a threat to our national security. Clinton said that she may have “short circuited” her description of what happened.
“She is still the other in our definition for what candidates for this office are like”, said Debbie Walsh, director of the Center for American Women and Politics at Rutgers University.
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