Clinton said she was concerned about “credible reports about Russian government interference in our elections”, telling reporters traveling with her from OH to IL that “we are facing a very serious concern”.
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According to Quinnipiac, Trump also holds a four-point edge in OH, and he is tied with Clinton at 43% in Florida, according to the poll.
The poll continues to show Floridians divided along racial, gender and party lines in the presidential race.
Donald Trump says he doesn’t want any third party candidates on the presidential debate stage when he debates Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton.
The Labor Day holiday is the traditional kickoff to the frenzied, last stretch of campaigning ahead of the November 8 election, and both Trump and Clinton chose to begin their day in Cleveland. The Green Party’s Jill Stein had 4 percent support. Voters are less enthusiastic than they were in 2008 and 2012, but Trump supporters are more enthusiastic than Clinton supporters.
The numbers are a stark reversal from an early August poll that gave Clinton an 8-point lead over the Republican nominee, and the latest to show the race may be closer than it once appeared.
The Associated Press said that Ms Clinton powered through a coughing fit at a Labor Day festival at a Cleveland park, sharply criticising Mr Trump’s recent trip to Mexico as “an embarrassing global incident”. He visited flood-stricken Louisiana and accepted the invitation of Mexican President Enrique Pieta Nieto, while Clinton was busy raising funds. A CNN Poll of Polls analysis released Friday showed that Clinton’s lead had been cut in half when compared with the height of her convention bounce.
The Washington Post said the NY businessman paid the Internal Revenue Service a $2,500 penalty this year after it was revealed that his foundation had violated tax laws by giving a political contribution to a campaign group connected to Florida’s attorney general, Pam Bondi, who has endorsed Trump.
To do that, the billionaire mogul needs to do everything he can to reassure moderate voters that he can be calm and cool on the spot, and needs to keep the attention off of him and make the election a referendum on Clinton, analysts said.
The Connecticut-based Quinnipiac, which frequently conducts polls in Florida and other states, surveyed 761 likely Florida voters from August 29 to Wednesday. Earlier this summer, the political action committee of the Pennsylvania Pro-Life Federation supported Trump as well and other NRLC state affiliate groups have followed suit.
Donald Trump is many things, but frugal is apparently not one of them.
Autolist found that the Clinton and Trump camps each think quite differently when it comes to vehicle buying habits.
Trump holds an edge over Clinton as more trusted to handle two of voters’ top four issues – the economy (56 percent trust Trump vs. 41 percent Clinton) and terrorism (51 percent Trump to 45 percent Clinton). The NBC News/Survey Monkey poll has Clinton with 48% of the vote and Trump with 42%.
However, Clinton was seen as having a “better temperament to serve as president” (56% to 36%) and also “better able to handle the responsibilities of commander in chief (50% to 35%)”.
Washington’s Clinton voters are bit different than the rest of the country – though, not by much.
The CNN/ORC Poll was conducted by telephone September 1-4 among a random national sample of 1,001 adults. The poll has a margin of error of 3.6 percentage points. “They believe the more exposure Trump has the less likely he is to win, and of course that could also be true of her”.
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Trump, however, is in trouble with minority voters – 71% of nonwhites in the CNN/ORC poll said they preferred Clinton.
