For Trump, these latest results are a positive indication that women are beginning to warm to his candidacy, and not view him as the caricature portrayed on cable news. “Our infrastructure is that of a third-world country”.
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According to a Reuters/Ipsos opinion poll released on Tuesday, the NY businessman has 39 percent of the votes as compared to Clinton’s 37 percent of support, marking the first time he has been ahead since early May. Favorability ratings for Trump’s wife, Melania, climbed from 27% pre-convention to 43% post-convention, despite news that her Monday night speech contained passages lifted from Michelle Obama’s 2008 Democratic convention speech. The survey found 49 percent backed Trump and only 21 percent supported Clinton.
Several vets, many of them African-American, left before Trump began to speak.
Trump also said he would re-do policies that have hurt the country. It’s worth noting that on this matter, the difference among Democrats was far larger than in the Republican camp. All six national polls are giving Trump a victory over Clinton. It was another sharp difference from Clinton’s approach Tuesday: She didn’t mention Trump by name once in her 30-minute address. The crowd cheered loudly and many stood to applaud Trump.
When asked what was more important to maintaining US influence and status, Sanders supporters were more likely to favor economic strength over military strength. Defense Secretary Ash Carter announced late previous year that all military combat positions were being opened to women, a move Clinton heralded. However, only 17 percent of Clinton supporters felt this generation would be better off; 42 percent thought things would stay about the same.
Clinton, he continued, “has a much different view”.
And speaking of OH, a PPP poll released yesterday showed Clinton and Trump tied in the state at 45% each. Ideological conservatives question Trump’s beliefs, and establishment Republicans question his fitness for office.
Trump argued that Clinton dropped her maiden name of Rodham because it sounds like Rotten.
And despite the widespread talk of the different views of trade, both Clinton and Sanders supporters had a fairly positive view of globalization and said global trade was good for the US economy and their own standard of living – a sharp contrast with Trump supporters. “There are likely fewer black delegates to the Republican convention than at any point in at least a century”, read a July 19 headline in the Washington Post.
Be Civil – It’s OK to have a difference in opinion but there’s no need to be a jerk.
Polls conducted during and just after conventions are particularly subject to change.
In addition, Trump leads Clinton by one point in the two CBS News polls released on 25 July, by four points in the LA Times/USC poll from 24 July and by two points in the Gravis poll released on 23 July.
Donald Trump so far has stayed away from the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia – but he’s made his presence known on the campaign trail this week. Sixteen percent said they disliked him, while 12 percent described him as an “idiot” or a “joke” and 10 percent as a “racist” or a “bigot”.
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Except even that approach has one problem: It shouldn’t even have been this close in the first place.
