“Mr Trump has alienated his party and he isn’t running a competent campaign”, the newspaper said in an editorial. Trump would receive 18 percent of votes, while Libertarian Party nominee Gary Johnson would receive 11 percent support and Green Party nominee Jill Stein would win 4 percent.
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Trump’s decision not to run ads was unprecedented in modern campaigns and gave his rival, Hillary Clinton, a big advantage when it came to the airwaves. In 2012, Obama gathered 93 percent of 67 percent African-American turnout, but Clinton has support from 80 percent of black voters, with Trump’s 11 percent nearly doubling Romney’s 6 percent.
The ad ends with Clinton speaking during the Democratic National Convention in July: “A man you can bait with a tweet is not a man we can trust with nuclear weapons”. Last week, 70 Republicans, including former members of Congress and Republican National Committee staff, wrote a letter calling for the RNC to stop helping Trump, whose actions they said were ‘divisive and unsafe’.
However, the poll showed that women from military households prefer Clinton over Trump, 49 percent to 43 percent.
Independent voters also think Clinton will defeat Trump, with 51 percent choosing the former secretary of state and 19 percent picking the billionaire businessman.
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks during a campaign rally at Sacred Heart University, Saturday, Aug. 13, 2016, in Fairfield, Connecticut.
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The race in Iowa is effectively a toss-up, according to Quinnipiac, which gives Clinton a 2-point lead, 41% to 39%, in a four-way race, within the poll’s margin of error. And with college-educated white voters in Virginia, Clinton beats Trump 53% to 37% – in Virginia in 2012, Romney won 54% of those voters. If the trend continues, the Democratic Party will have scored double-digit victories among younger voters in three consecutive elections, the first time that has happened since poll consensus became available in 1952.
