Clinton criticized Trump’s comments about America’s generals, which he said had been “reduced to rubble”, and his praise for Russian President Vladimir Putin. When third-party candidates are added into the mix, Clinton and Trump are still tied, this time at 43 percent.
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And perceptions of Clinton’s use of a private email server while secretary of state, which came up frequently in Wednesday night’s forum, has shifted over the a year ago and a half from an issue that voters deemed mostly irrelevant to her character or ability to serve as president to one which nearly two-thirds judge as an indicator of her fitness for the job.
Clinton earns 44 percent support in the poll while Trump earns 41 percent.
And Libertarian presidential nominee Gary Johnson got plenty of play in the media today – for all the wrong reasons – after this exchange on a cable news network. Only 37% of North Carolina voters said they have a favorable opinion of Clinton, while a majority – 55% – said they have an unfavorable opinion.
The former secretary of state had led Trump in Pennsylvania by as many as 11 points following the July political conventions, but that advantage has narrowed in recent weeks in several polls. “Trump is getting just 25 percent from minority voters, while Clinton gets just 26 percent of white men”.
Lauer struggled to find a balance in his thirty-minute interviews with Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump. But Clinton maintains an Electoral College firewall that appears to be far more resilient than Trump’s, according to state polling. A CBS News poll released last weekend found Clinton leading Trump by four in the state.
The Suffolk University poll was conducted September 5-7 using phone interviews with 500 likely North Carolina voters.
In Florida, Clinton went from being up 4.5 points on August 22 to leading by 0.3 points Thursday.
Each of the Quinnipiac surveys sampled between 751 and 778 likely voters and had a margin of error of either 3.5 or 3.6 percentage points.
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In August one-on-one match-ups Clinton was ahead by 1-point in Florida (within the margin of error), 4 points in OH and 10 points in Pennsylvania.
