A flurry of recent surveys, especially in battleground states, shows that when voters are asked about a four-way race – involving Trump, Clinton, Libertarian Party candidate Gary Johnson and Green Party candidate Jill Stein – Clinton’s lead often narrows.
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Hillary Clinton vowed Tuesday to conduct a national security and foreign policy that Americans could be proud of, saying rival Donald Trump “just absolutely bewilders” her when he talks about his policies around the globe.
Florida is one of the states Trump needs to peel off from those that supported President Barack Obama in 2008 and 2012.
While Trump does better than Clinton among military households overall, some of the divisions that exist among all voters are clearly reflected among military households as well.
Despite a almost dead-even national election in 1960, non-whites voted by a near 2-to-1 margin for John F. Kennedy over Richard Nixon.
The reason why Trump still stands in front of Clinton in the state is his dominance among voters over age 65.
In a pure head-to-head contest, Trump leads Clinton in Texas by a 50-44 percent margin, according to the PPP poll. He is favoured by about 35pc of likely voters, according to the most recent poll. Clinton also leads Trump in the D.C. exurbs, the Richmond area and the Tidewater region; the Republican leads only in southwest Virginia, a region hard-hit by the decline of the coal industry.
In addition to women, non-whites are a key constituency for Clinton, and she has their support among military households too.
Polling on the presidential race in Texas has been scant, but the margin found by PPP is the narrowest yet.
“Donald Trump is simply parroting lies based on fabricated documents promoted by Roger Stone and his right wing allies”, she alleged, a day after Trump at an election rally alleged that Clinton “lacks the mental and physical stamina to take on ISIS”.
But Christie said that in the last 15 to 20 years “there have become more questions raised” about voter fraud. Clinton has dominated advertising in battleground states for two months with an nearly 9-to-1 advantage in ad spending when outside groups are factored in, NBC News reports. ‘If black and Latino voters come out and vote, we could win Texas, ‘ Clinton said, ‘practically licking her lips, ‘ Traister observed.
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Donald Trump on Monday proposed Cold War-scale efforts to battle “radical Islamic terror” that would include subjecting immigrants and visitors to the USA to “extreme vetting”. And a NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll of Virginia, released this week, also found Clinton leading, 46% to 33%.
