Caption + Republican Presidential Candidate Donald Trump pauses as he speaks during the final day of the Republican National Convention in Cleveland, Thursday, July 21, 2016.
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Wasserman Schultz’s abrupt departure was undoubtedly an effort to keep the Democrats’ gathering from devolving into the tumult that marred last week’s Republican National Convention.
But don’t get too excited about post-convention polls – HuffPollster: “Following the polls closely immediately after each convention is only good for one thing: Trying to gauge how much of a bump the candidate got”. That year Al Gore and George W. Bush both boosted their numbers by an identical 8 points post-convention before ultimately battling all the way to the Supreme Court.
Clinton campaigned in Charlotte, North Carolina, on Monday, serving up a harsh critique of Trump’s foreign policy and what she said was his “trash talk about America”.
In another Tweet, Trump says “bad judgment was on display” by DNC officials who criticized Clinton’s primary rival Bernie Sanders.
There are now 4,763 total delegates, and 712 of them are superdelegates.
The poll also reflects a sharpening of the education divide among whites that has been prevalent throughout the campaign.
In a two-way head-to-head, respondents gave Trump a three-point lead with 48% compared to 45% for Clinton.
Trump also experienced a significant jump in backing from blue-collar workers, with support from whites without college degrees now exceeding 62% as opposed to only to 23% in support of Clinton. He now holds double-digit margins over Clinton as more trusted on the economy and terrorism.
More than 50 remain uncommitted.
The convention also helped Trump make strides in his personal image.
In other words, Clinton and the Democrats successfully rejected Sanders’s core message: The country is an exploitative oligarchy so terrible that nothing short of scrambling up the whole system will do. Our presidential forecast, which now gives Hillary Clinton a 74 percent chance to win, does something different: It imposes a small penalty on polls taken when a candidate might be receiving a convention bounce. And almost half now say he’s in touch with the problems ordinary Americans face in their daily lives (46% say so, 37% did before the convention). A poll taken before Republicans gathered in Cleveland showed 39 percent of voters holding a positive view of Trump.
Clinton’s ratings on these same measures took a hit, though in most cases her drop-off was not quite as large as Trump’s gain. The episode is an embarrassing distraction for the Democratic Party, as the Clinton campaign and its surrogates prepare to use the week to paint two starkly different visions between Clinton and Trump.
In the interview, Clinton was asked what she calls Trump, in response to his moniker for her: “Crooked Hillary”.
Hillary ClintonHillary Rodham ClintonThree strategies to help Clinton build “Team of Teams” Clinton and Trump tied in national poll What Democrats are talking about as the convention starts MORE and Donald TrumpDonald TrumpThree strategies to help Clinton build “Team of Teams” Clinton and Trump tied in national poll What Democrats are talking about as the convention starts MORE are tied in the race for the presidency as the Democratic National Convention opens, according to a new poll.
“It was just an angry mob”, Mook told reporters at a Bloomberg Politics breakfast in Philadelphia.
The convention is the campaign’s best chance to reach critical audiences before the November election, said Benenson.
The public rendered a split decision on whether the convention made them more or less likely to back Trump, 42% said more likely while 44% said less so, but the shift in voter preferences suggests the “more likely” side carried more weight. And most came away feeling ready to decide about Trump’s fitness for the job: 78% say they already know enough to know whether he’d be a good president. Another 20% think they need more information.
Sanders will address the convention Monday night, and Obama will speak on Wednesday night.
Cruz’s move, however, appears to have backfired.
In return, Clinton seized upon what she called the “fear and the anger and the resentment” from Trump and Republicans, dismissing Trump’s declaration that only he could fix the problems that afflict the nation.
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The survey polled 2,502 registered voters.
