Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump leads Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton by 12 percentage points in a new poll released by a conservative SC political management firm.
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The Republican nominee told a town hall audience in Virginia that Russian President Vladimir Putin would laugh at Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton should she become president.
If third party candidates are included, Gary Johnson polls at 10 percent in SC and Jill Stein has the support of 3 percent.
Overall, Trump was seen as more honest and trustworthy (50%) than Clinton (35%) and also the stronger leader (50% to 42%).
“Her conduct is disqualifying”, Trump told thousands of cheering supporters in Greenville, N.C. A poll from early July came up with the same numbers for both candidates. Trump does best with men, white voters and those who did not go to college.
Clinton’s lead evaporated despite a challenging month for Trump, which saw an overhaul of his campaign staff, announcements of support for Clinton from several high-profile Republicans and criticism of his campaign strategy.
Donald Trump remains the favorite in the state, said William Boone, a political scientist at Clark Atlanta University, but it doesn’t look like the Hillary Clinton campaign will make a big play here. “It was discussed that it wouldn’t be discussed, but they know my stance, and I know their stance”, Trump said.
Trump beat Clinton 45- to 43% in the new CNN/ORC Poll, which showed stark divisions in the way different demographics plan to cast their ballots. Seventeen percent of independents said they would vote for someone else, 6 percent undecided and 3 percent Stein; these numbers were at 16, 7, and 5 percent, respectively, in the last poll.
Also Tuesday, Trump – the master showman turned presidential candidate – has added yet another critique to his list of reasons he believes that Clinton should not be president: She simply does not look the part.
Trump “can’t even go to a friendly foreign country without getting into a fight”, she said during a campaign stop in Hampton, Illinois.
These results indicates a widening gap between Clinton and Trump in traditionally Republican-voting SC. Trump, meanwhile, addressed his proposed border wall plan in an interview with ABC’s Good Morning America. “Something odd is clearly going on”, Kaine said, pointing not just to Trump’s request that Russia hack Clinton’s emails, but also to the connections between Trump’s former campaign manager Paul Manafort and the Russian regime.
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She made an effort in her Tampa remarks to gain the support of so-called “millennials”, voters born between 1980 and 2000, promising to fight for an economy that works for all Americans, not just for the ones on top, pushing for renewable and clean energy sources, including solar power, and making young people a part of that process.
