In a head-to-head matchup, Trump leads Clinton by a margin of 42 percent to 39 percent in Florida, erasing the Democrat’s eight-point lead in June, according to the poll conducted by Quinnipiac University. She is trying to use the symbolic site to contrast her call for civility with what she sees as rival Donald Trump’s polarizing campaign.
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Aides said Clinton’s speech was meant to build upon her address last week at the African Methodist Episcopal Church general conference in Philadelphia.
“His campaign is as divisive as any we have seen in our lifetimes”, Clinton said at a campaign appearance at the IL state house in Springfield.
The latest Quinnipiac University polls, released today, show Trump leading in Florida and Pennsylvania and tied in Ohio. As for Pennsylvania, the businessman has a slight advantage over Hillary Clinton, 43 to 41 percent, again within the margin of error. That poll also saw him trailing Hillary Clinton overall by two points (42/40) which lead to Trump’s taking to twitter to crow over his…deficit.
Under that scenario, the numbers among likely voters are: Clinton 43%, Trump 37%, Libertarian Gary Johnson 8%, and Green Party Candidate Jill Stein at 2%.
Clinton has a large lead among women voters 56 percent-30 percent, while men are divided, with 40 percent for Trump and 39 percent for Clinton.
It was only two weeks ago that Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump publicly wondered, during a radio interview with conservative host Mike Gallagher, why he wasn’t faring better in polls.
Clinton leads in nearly every demographic, expect with men, with whom Trump holds a very slight (within the margin of error) lead. But the poll shows Florida voters think Trump is more honest and would do better at creating jobs, on immigration and at taking on ISIS. One of the biggest shifts in the new survey involves independent voters, who favored Clinton by nine percentage points in the June poll.
Clinton, who was attempting to position herself as a unifying figure, said the nation’s future depends on how we, as a nation, handle this moment – it is one which she said must be met with “honesty and courage”. At the same time, she asked Americans to put themselves “in the shoes of police officers kissing their kids and spouses every day and heading off to a risky job we need them to do”. It had a margin of error of 3.4 percentage points for all three states.
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In the four-way race, Trump leads Clinton 41-to-36 in Florida, with Johnson taking 7 percent and Stein taking 4 percent.
