Both models have Clinton running the table on the battleground states Obama won in 2012, plus winning in North Carolina, where Romney narrowly prevailed.
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“We are going to win OH, no doubt about that, ” Trump said. Why not remind the public at every turn that this warped, deformed version of the Party of Lincoln, the electoral equivalent of Quasimodo without the redeeming inner beauty, was fundamentally broken as a political institution and should not be trusted to run so much as an ice cream truck, let alone the massive apparatus of government?
Polls show that Clinton is weakest among Hispanic voters who are English-dominant and US -born, while Spanish-dominant and foreign-born Hispanic voters are more likely to support her over Trump.
But that’s a tall order, for sure. “I am so sorry, but I believe Mr. Trump lost the election tonight”, Texas pastor Ramiro Pena said Wednesday.
It’s the latter part of what Tampa Bay reporter Adam C. Smith wrote that has Trump confident of victory in the state. Seven per cent supported Libertarian candidate Gary Johnson, and two per cent supported Jill Stein of the Green Party. When asked who they would want to win the nomination if given the chance to choose again, Republicans and Republican-leaning voters still chose Trump with over 29 percent choosing him over his nearest rival Texas senator, Ted Cruz, whom only 15 percent of participants chose. October surprises do happen but can’t be counted on as campaign strategy. There is no evidence right now that skittish GOP donors who aren’t funding Trump’s presidential race are actually writing big checks to House Republicans.
The map above shows where Kiplinger editors expect the states to wind up on November 8, not where they stand today.
Results in the Pennsylvania poll are on par with those in national polls. Georgia, for example, is a statistical tie, but we think Trump will prevail. That being so, it’s curious that she hasn’t lost anything in her overall share of the vote.
Neither candidate leaves large numbers of voters with warm, fuzzy feelings. It’s likely there will be many polls released next week to mark that campaign kickoff, and since voters typically begin tuning in more closely to the campaign once the summer ends, those figures will be more meaningful for all candidates.
Clinton’s strongholds: The Northeast, Upper Midwest and the West Coast, with Colorado, New Mexico and Hawaii tossed in. Most importantly, we deserve to have a choice beyond what we are being told are our only choices.
Trump campaign spokespeople did not immediately reply to requests for comment. The Commission on Presidential Debates on Friday also announced that CBS News correspondent Elaine Quijano will moderate the vice presidential debate between Republican Mike Pence and Democrat Tim Kaine. However, many states report the party affiliation of people who have cast ballots, offering solid clues. Clinton has a positive favorability rating at 68 percent.
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Still, Democrats say there is no substitute for engaging many Hispanic voters in Spanish and in bilingual ads.
