“After a disastrous week of feuds and plummeting poll numbers, Republican leaders have concluded that Donald J Trump is a threat to the party’s fortunes and have begun discussing how soon their endangered candidates should explicitly distance themselves from the presidential nominee”, The New York Times said in a report on Sunday.
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Clinton leads Trump, 50% to 42%, in a head-to-head race, the survey of registered voters found.
It’s unclear yet if the Reuters/Ipsos survey is an outlier or an early indicator that the recent big gains for Clinton were really just her Democratic National Convention bounce, which would naturally deflate.
As secretary of state, Hillary Clinton basked in a diplomatic “Moscow Spring”, seizing on Vladimir Putin’s break from the presidency to help seal a nuclear arms-control treaty and secure Russia’s acquiescence to a NATO-led military intervention in Libya.
Satisfaction with both candidates remains low: almost 6 in 10 registered voters said that they are unhappy with both Clinton and Trump as major party candidates.
Seventy-nine percent of Americans said that the brash billionaire doesn’t show enough respect for the people he disagrees with.
Members of Trump’s advisory group shared their views on policy with senior Trump aides on Sunday in a conference call, said banker Stephen Calk, one of the members who took part. Meanwhile, 61 percent said Clinton is “temperamentally suited for the Oval Office”. Sixty-two percent said he’s not honest and trustworthy. It’s a theme Trump and his daughter, Ivanka, first introduced during the Republican National Convention as his campaign seeks to broaden its appeal to Democratic voters ahead of the general election.
A new poll of Arizona, Virginia, and Nevada is a flawless example of how the electoral map is shifting towards Democrats and the damage that Trump is doing to the Republican Party. Time Kaine as her running mate.
When third-party candidates were included, Clinton led Trump by nine points, 46-37 percent.
Clinton also holds a big advantage among women, 48 to 35 percent, while men are more evenly split, 41 to 40 percent, in favor of Trump. It has a margin of error of plus or minus 3.5 percentage points.
The new poll indicates that he’s lost ground and she’s gained. Trump receives 33 percent. Johnson pulls 11% support, while Stein garners 2%.
The nation’s unemployment rate stood at 4.9 percent in July, a substantial decline from the peak of about 10 percent in October 2009 in the wake of a major recession, according to federal statistics. The rise of the boisterous and self-defeating Donald Trump to the top of the Republican ticket has provided Democrats with a priceless opportunity to not only win the election, but to change the political landscape throughout the southern states.
Pollsters say Clinton is being bolstered by the high Latino vote in the Western state.
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Clinton has her own challenges in this poll, produced for ABC by Langer Research Associates– 66 percent say she’s too willing to bend the rules, though this has eased by 6 points from last month.
