Both visited the key Midwestern state of OH on Monday, voicing support for working families during the country’s Labor Day holiday.
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Yes, “advisers to Hillary Clinton’s campaign have identified so many paths to an Election Day victory they are now focusing not only on the one or two battlegrounds that would ensure a win but on opening up the possibility of an Electoral College landslide”.
New polls show the race is closing the gap. “And a lot of them came through”, Trump said, pointing to New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie and Dr.
Clinton holds leads of just two points in MI and Wisconsin, and there is a tie in North Carolina, where Trump speaks at a rally Tuesday evening. The latest Reuters-Ipsos poll showed Trump with 40 percent support vs 39 percent for Clinton, effectively ending Clinton’s bump up in the polls after the Democratic nominating convention.
Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) will return to the campaign trail Friday in Philadelphia, the campaign also announced, setting up the city for a run of high-profile surrogate campaigning that will continue next week when President Obama campaigns there for Clinton.
The Washington Post reported that USA authorities were probing a covert Russian operation that included a cyber attack on voter registration systems in Arizona. For a comparison we can look at the NBC Surveymonkey poll which also just dropped.
Saying he will likely write in the name of another Republican on Election Day, Flake said on CNN he would like to support the party’s nominee, “but given the positions that he has taken and the tone and tenor of his campaign, I simply can’t”. “I think you have an obligation to do the debates”.
The complete poll results
Nine weeks from Election Day, the electoral math favours Democrat Hillary Clinton.
In a two-way race, Trump leads Clinton 49 to 48 per cent. The other big divide is the marriage gap.
The figures for men were consistent for both married and unmarried poll participants, while unmarried women (73%) were more likely to vote Clinton than married (36%).
Trump was buoyed by more polls showing him in a competitive position.
Green Party candidate Jill Stein is at 2 per cent in the survey. Neither are within striking distance of the 15% required to get on the debate stage. And even if Johnson loses, 2016 could end with third parties having emerged as a stronger force in American politics.
After eating a gyro at a diner in the Cleveland area, Trump rallied thousands of cheering supporters at a county fair in Canfield, and Clinton visited a brewery in Cleveland. It is a vulnerability that Trump Republicans are bent on exploiting although the maverick billionaire is himself skating on thin ice or simply winging it on various subjects, many of which will feature in the Presidential debate.
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A giant caveat: those of us in the news business are way too addicted to polls.
