Voters also still believe he’s the candidate who can make the most change in Washington over someone like Hillary Clinton.
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Clinton and Trump are in a dead heat among Wisconsin Independents, with Clinton leading the billionaire by one point, 35% to 34%.
Donald Trump’s supporters on Capitol Hill said Thursday they know the stakes are high for Monday night’s debate and could set the tone for the sprint to Election Day.
The race between Clinton and Trump represents a battle between two of the least liked major party candidates in history, and Pew’s findings are hardly the first to show that voters are largely disappointed with both.
Clinton didn’t mention Trump specifically, but said her campaign would unite Americans, rather than divide them.
First, the media and Republicans seized on Clinton’s comment that half of Donald Trump’s supporters fall into a “basket of deplorables”.
Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump.
At a rally in North Carolina, Trump pushed back on Clinton’s claim that his rhetoric helps ISIS recruit.
Hillary Clinton is reserving $30 million in digital advertising as she seeks to connect with young voters. In an interview later, Trump called for a national expansion of “stop-and-frisk”, the police tactic that a federal judge ruled can be discriminatory against minorities. In the last poll, 13 percent expressed no preference while 15 percent did so in this poll.
Clinton carried a five-point lead among the larger pool of registered voters, down from a nine-point lead in the same poll taken in August.
Trump has also tried to broaden his appeal to minority voters in recent weeks and cut into Democrats’ massive advantage among black voters, a key group of the coalition that twice elected President Barack Obama.
Clinton has made curbing gun violence and police brutality a central part of her candidacy. That poll held a 4.4 percent margin of error making the difference a statistical tie.
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In a poll of 1,300 general population respondents completed September 18 and 19, the poll showed that job creation and national security were either very important or somewhat important to 93 percent of those polled.
