Clinton’s visit comes within days of a scheduled visit from Trump, who is to address the Detroit Economic Club on Monday.
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Donald Trump continued to roll out his newly-framed attack on Hillary Clinton’s mental health on Saturday night at a New Hampshire campaign rally, declaring that she was “unhinged”, “unbalanced”, “incompetent”, and a “horrible, horrible, human being” who is unfit to be president. But 53% in that poll said they think Clinton will win, while only 42% saw a Trump presidency on the way.
Clinton has accused Trump of being “temperamentally unfit” to be president, and a slew of top former government officials have raised questions about Trump’s character and his fitness to become the next commander in chief.
Trump appears to have done little to improve his overall image, despite efforts primarily by his children to use their convention speeches to portray him as a loving father and a successful business executive.
Clinton’s surprising edge in Georgia follows a week of favorable national and battleground state polling for the former secretary of state after a bounce from the Democratic National Convention and fueled by Trump’s own hard stretch.
By contrast, the poll found that young non-white Americans view Clinton more favourably.
She’s receiving 50 percent support from registered voters, while he gets 42 percent.
Kasich has not endorsed Trump, and he skipped the Republican National Convention in Cleveland.
Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton speaks at the 2016 National Association of Black Journalists’ and National Association of Hispanic Journalists’ Hall of Fame Luncheon at Marriott Wardman Park in Washington, Friday, Aug. 5, 2016.
As reported by USA Today, Hillary Clinton now also has a substantial lead in Florida as well.
Just three weeks ago, before either of the two major parties held their conventions, Clinton led Trump in a two-race race, 47 percent to 43 percent. The Virginia poll was has a margin of error of 3.7 points.
When the third party candidates are added in, like the ABC News/Washington Post poll, Clinton remains in the lead. 59% of likely voters in Virginia, a state with an especially large veteran population, say his response to the Khans has been inappropriate, along with 53% in Arizona and 57% in Nevada. Trump receives 33 percent.
The same is true of Green Party nominee Jill Stein – though to a lesser degree, since Stein doesn’t earn almost the same level of support as Johnson. Notably, it was also the only state polled in this wave of the YouGov/CBS News 2016 Battleground Tracker where Jill Stein was not a named option alongside Johnson for voters who opted for “someone else” besides Clinton and Trump.
Clinton’s lead is also helped by negative opinions of Trump following his handling of the Gold Star Khan family, who have been outspoken critics of the GOP nominee and whose Muslim son died in the Iraq War in 2004 fighting for the U.S.as an Army captain.
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The governor said he does not support Clinton.
