Hillary Clinton wants voters to “understand the facts” when she meets Donald Trump for their first debate on Monday night.
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With just six weeks before the November 8 election, Monday’s debate at Hofstra University in Hempstead, New York will be the first of three between the White House rivals.
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When Libertarian Gary Johnson and Green Party candidate Jill Stein are added to the match-up question, Clinton still maintained the lead among registered LGBT voters with 63 percent support.
Furthermore, the ad reflects a larger strategic choice by Clinton to emphasize Trump’s negative personal traits rather than attempting to tie him to the Republican Party or Republican ideology.
“With Trump and Hillary at heads with each other, bat with each other, it’s a really exciting debate and time to be on campus”, he said. But as Matt Yglesias reminds us, Clinton and her team are likely saving their most devastating attack ads on Trump for later in the campaign season.
“Trump saying things like, ‘Oh, I can solve the ISIS problem in 30 days.’ That just doesn’t sit well with me because that just doesn’t make sense”, said David Shaevel, 42, a Clinton backer from Austin, Texas.
– When Clinton diverts a question about her emails, drink.
– If Trump calls Clinton, “Crooked Hillary”, drink. Half of voters say Trump is at least somewhat racist, while only a third say that word doesn’t apply to him at all.
Trump has a rally scheduled for Virginia on Saturday. “If she’s respectful of me, that’ll be nice”, he said.
The decision was based primarily on Clinton’s experience, coupled with Trump’s lack thereof. They go to the same restaurants, they attend the same conferences, they have the same friends – and they actually like me, many of them, if I must say.
As for statements Trump has actually made, 54 percent of voters believe Trump will track all Muslims, tied with the number of Americans who think Trump will target the families of terrorists.
Forty-four per cent say they would be afraid if Clinton, the former secretary of state, is elected, far less than the 56 per cent who say the same of Trump.
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The AP-GfK Poll of 1,694 adults, including 1,476 registered voters, was conducted online September 15-19, using a sample drawn from GfK’s probability-based KnowledgePanel, which is created to be representative of the USA population. It has a margin of error of +/- 3.6 points.
