Hillary Clinton has opened up a wide lead over Donald Trump in Colorado and Virginia and is narrowly ahead of him in Iowa in a new poll. It has a margin of error of 3.2 percentage points. In Trump’s case, 23 percent of his supporters say they’re pro-Trump, while 61 percent are anti-Clinton.
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Trump’s standing in Texas is consistent with his fall-off from Romney’s performance four years ago in other Republican states.
Trump, who has been vocal in support of law enforcement during a spate of protests around the country over high-profile police shootings, told Fox News that he plans to address the unrest during a town hall meeting on Tuesday in the Wisconsin city.
Trump also sought to galvanize the African-American community into supporting him by touting his hardline stance on illegal immigration and arguing that Clinton’s policies to give some undocumented immigrants legal status in the USA would take away jobs from low-income African-Americans. And he noted that the race is closer in Iowa, largely because it’s predominantly white, and Clinton runs especially strong among minority voters.
Now, it is always possible that, if Trump loses, the GOP could quickly rebound in 2018 and 2020, without sustaining long term damage from the depredations of Trumpism.
Texas has a growing Hispanic population. For voters under 45, the lead becomes even more significant with the Democratic nominee receiving 25 percent more votes.
Clinton has a 36 percent to 59 percent favorable-to-unfavorable rating in Texas, while Trump has a 40 percent to 53 percent favorable-to-unfavorable rating.
Mr Trump, she said, has “shown us who he is”.
Among Indiana voters likely to cast ballots in November’s presidential election, 47 percent now support Trump, 36 percent back Clinton, 10 percent intend to vote for Libertarian Gary Johnson, and 5 percent are undecided.
Overall, Tuesday’s results also found that 26 percent of voters in Texas would back the Lone Star State’s independence.
Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton was found to spend more on advertising in June alone that Trump did throughout May, June and most of April.
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Republican National Committee chairman Reince Priebus said in a statement that Mrs Clinton’s tax plan would “kill jobs, reduce wages and hurt economic growth” and her prior Senate votes showed “she can’t be trusted to look out for the middle class”. In 2006, the late Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia wrote in a letter that, “If there was any constitutional issue resolved by the Civil War, it is that there is no right to secede”. “That could shape the political affiliations of the largest generation in American history for years to follow”.
