The fight for OH in the 2016 election is a showcase for how Republicans and Democrats are navigating a deeply divided electorate.
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Clinton has also lost many of her Democratic supporters after knocking out her primary rival Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders with the help of the Democratic National Committee (DNC).
Clinton’s biggest fundraiser of the month was a $6.6 million event in the Hamptons hosted by Jonathan Tisch, co-owner of the New York Giants.
“This is a guy born with a silver spoon in his mouth, and now he’s choking on it because his foot is in his mouth along with the spoon, ” Biden said during a speech at the United Autoworkers Local 1714 hall near the General Motors Lordstown plant.
Also Friday, the FBI released 58 pages of documents from its recently closed investigation into Clinton’s use of a private email server during her tenure as secretary of state.
And attendee Debbie Williams, a Republican running for Congress, told Trump her race was “going well”, but added, “I can only imagine what’s going to happen” after the meeting. One state hasn’t gone Republican since 1988, while the other went for Obama twice.
Trump continues to appeal more to white voters with a high school degree or less (52 to 35 percent) while Clinton maintains an advantage with college-educated whites (50 to 29 percent). So up and down the ticket, hundreds of millions of dollars in Democratic messaging will be “Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump”.
Taylor was a die-hard supporter of Kasich’s run for president and a Kasich delegate at the Republican National Convention in Cleveland.
During the time the polls included in the average were conducted, both candidates have faced a wave of negative news stories.
State Libertarian Party Chair Jay North said his party – by far the largest outside of the Republicans and Democrats – has seen an uptick in donations as well as interest in Johnson, a former Republican governor of New Mexico and businessman who captured 1.38 percent of Colorado’s vote in 2012. Some Democrats said they took Republican ballots to vote for Trump. Interestingly, voters age 65 and older were much more closely divided, with 47 percent saying they trusted Clinton and 44 percent trusting Trump. The first scenario plays into Republican arguments and voter concerns about her trustworthiness and transparency, while the second casts doubt on her pitch as a hyper-competent, detail-driven executive.
Nine percent preferred (9%) Johnson, which means it is six points short of the average of 15 percent needed in a series of five polls to qualify for the string of presidential debates.
“Even if they personally don’t like Hillary, they should still look at the fact that what party saved the auto industry, ” O’Hara said. That’s why you have field offices in swing states – so that people who work for you are living in key communities where you need to ensure you are maximizing your vote.
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She told investigators that “everyone at State knew she had a private email address because it was displayed to anyone with whom she exchanged emails”, according to a summary of the July 1 interviewed released Friday by the Federal Bureau of Investigation. “But it’s really, frankly, still early to know”. Meanwhile, Clinton campaign avoided the press, had more bad news about the Foundation hit the printing presses, and tried to say that Trump choked overseas. That means Clinton’s lead has been cut in half since her post-convention bounce when she led by 10 points.
