Both Clinton and Trump struggle with high unfavorable ratings among likely Pennsylvania voters, but as in New Hampshire, Clinton has an advantage over Trump on this measure.
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In January, just before voting in the nominating contests got underway, 66% of Republicans said they were enthusiastic vs. 52% of Democrats.
Donald Trump’s horror week on the campaign trail was compounded ahead of the weekend, with new polls in crucial must-win swing states showing Hillary Clinton leading decisively.
“And we’ll put up a tie factory in Jamaica, Queens and we’ll make the Donald Trump ties here”. The president’s point was driven home by a classic “Morning in America” speech and a phalanx of professional politicians, all of them winners; William Jefferson Clinton, Joe Biden, even Jimmy Carter via video hook-up; nary a John Kerry, Michael Dukakis, Walter Mondale or Al Gore to be found mucking up the works.
After Conventions, often you get these kind of bumps. Just being sarcastic, he said later in an ineffective effort to cool down the criticism.
“I have no choice but to go for Clinton”, said Vietes, an independent voter.
Trump is viewed favorably by 33% of registered voters and is viewed unfavorably by 62%, according to the numbers. Similarly, one-third (31%) of Trump supporters say they have no close friends who support Clinton.
In 1988, with his party facing long odds in keeping the White House for a dozen years, outgoing President Ronald Reagan told his party’s convention that there was no need for change.
If you support a particular presidential candidate, it’s likely that many of your friends feel the same way. Phoenix-based OH Predictive Insights surveyed 996 likely voters on August 1 in a poll that included Libertarian Gary Johnson and Green Party candidate Jill Stein.
Clinton’s 11-point lead among likely voters in the Franklin & Marshall College poll comes after two weeks of party conventions and one especially rocky weekend for the Republican nominee.
These Democrats pointed to Trump’s presumably laying the groundwork for a prolonged post-Labor Day fight over whether he will participate in the presidential debates. He expressed complaints this week that the bipartisan commission that arranges the events had scheduled two of the three to take place during professional football games.
“I don’t really have a problem with helping people who need a job”, Letterman says. Well, as the dust settles over the political theater that grips the faithful of both major parties in their quadrennial pep rallies, we’re about to find out. Tim Kaine ticket beating Trump and Gov. Mike Pence by nine points nationwide, 52 to 43.
“It’s like saying if I became 8 feet tall, I’d be a great starter for the Cleveland Cavaliers”, said Guy Cecil, chief strategist at Priorities USA Action.
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Trump, though, is “a racist and he starts trouble everywhere he goes”, she said. “It’s never going to happen”.
