Clinton leads among white women (45/38 percent) and nonwhite voters (70/25 percent), and Trump leads with white men (41/38 percent). But they’re not holding out hope for big improvements. That is still below the 85 percent support Republican nominee Mitt Romney enjoyed in the summer of 2012, but the improvement helps explain Trump’s rise in the poll. So much so that the campaign is now preparing for a landslide victory, an unthinkable possibility for the Democratic candidate only two months ago.
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This stands in contrast to recent elections in years without an incumbent presidential candidate. Trump also has turned off potential donors with his comments on the campaign trail, and some Republicans are concerned he’s not supportive enough of the party’s platform. She’s proposed incremental improvements but no sweeping changes.
Clinton had touted her growing support from small contributors, with $44 million contributed online.
Both candidates have said they’d authorize Medicare to negotiate drug prices.
The survey results show that 70 percent of Latinos feel that Trump has made the Republican Party more hostile to Latinos and only 21 percent feel that the GOP truly cares about the Latino community.
Manchin’s disapproval rating was also higher; 31 percent said they disapproved of the Democratic senator, while 27 percent disapproved of Capito. Ryan favors a major overhaul of Medicare for future retirees, gradually replacing open-ended government coverage with a limited payment that beneficiaries could use for a range of insurance options.
Put the reliably red states in Trump’s column and reliably blue in Clinton’s.
Clinton leads in four regions of the state, F&M said, including southwest Pennsylvania (39/36 percent), Philadelphia (83/12 percent), Allegheny County (56/30 percent), and the southeast (45/31 percent). The numbers for Trump were 28 percent and 20 percent, respectively.
In New Hampshire, Clinton is leading by 11 percentage points, while in Virginia she is ahead by one points. President Bill Clinton is the only Democrat to take Arizona in the race for the White House since Harry Truman in 1948. On the overall access and affordability of health care, 52 percent trusted Clinton, compared with 39 percent saying Trump would do better. Especially so when you consider that in a Marquette poll that covered August 4-7, Trump was down a whopping 15 points in a head-to-head match, and 13 points in a four-way contest.
In a separate question in the Reuters/Ipsos poll that included alternative-party candidates, Mrs Clinton and Mr Trump were tied at 39 per cent.
Trump’s favorability rating is underwater, with 74 percent of Latinos holding an unfavorable view of the candidate and 67 percent holding a “very unfavorable” view.
The poll asked over 1,000 participants and was conducted on August 24-25.
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The F&M poll’s margin of error is plus-minus 4.6 percentage points and plus-minus 5.6 percentage points for the likely voters. AP material published by LongIsland.com, is done so with explicit permission.
