“The Ohio-based Republican convention might have been expected to give Trump a bump among that state’s voters, yet their dislike of both major-party candidates is translating into unease about the upcoming election”, Mr. Paleologos said. WSJ’s Gerald F. Seib discusses the dynamics of these key states.
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The Hillary Clinton campaign has launched an ad that invites adults to imagine what a child might be learning from rival Donald Trump’s campaign in an effort to highlight his provocative remarks, The New York Times said in a report.
Yet polls also show Clinton in a close race with the presumptive Republican nominee.
The Democratic presidential candidate condemned the recent killing of three Louisiana law enforcement officers and those in Dallas as well as string of shootings involving Black men, the latest in Louisiana and Minnesota.
The Republican and Democratic national conventions offer one opportunity for the parties to chip away at the antipathy, starting with the Republican convention, which kicks off Monday afternoon in Cleveland.
The telephone poll was conducted July 14-16 of 805 registered US voters.
Team Trump sees the Republican National Convention as a second chance for Donald Trump to make a first impression with the women who are likely to decide the presidential election. Mrs. Clinton had a 41 percent/51 percent favorable/unfavorable split, and Mr. Trump had a 38 percent/53 percent split.
“Do you want to fight terrorists at home or do you want to fight them overseas?” said Tiegen, noting the Clinton-Obama foreign policy has already led to the US having to fight terrorists at home in places like San Bernardino and Orlando. At 26.2 percent, officers were more inclined to vote for Clinton than enlisted personnel at nearly 17.4 percent.
Clinton and Trump are using fear to try to motivate supporters, Sandstone said.
After two nights of low-energy speeches, the crowd packed into the arena was noticeably more energetic Wednesday night, dancing in the aisles and waving signs reading, “America Deserves Better Than Hillary”.
The common sentiment is that the voters are torn-both candidates have strong qualities that do not sit well with the voting population.
According to the poll, Bernie Sanders’s endorsement of Clinton had little impact on voters’ decisions.
And close to 60 percent of voters said they’re unhappy with the choice between Trump and Clinton, according to a ABC News/Washington Post poll released Sunday.
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Sixty-one percent said they have a somewhat unfavorable or unfavorable view of Trump, while 52 percent said the same about Clinton, a resident of Chappaqua in Westchester County. The poll has a margin of error of plus or minus 3 percentage points. “I believe Hillary Clinton committed treason”. Trump announced Pence as his running mate Friday.
