Hillary Clinton appears to have closed what was once a large gap in support among male voters with rival Donald Trump, according to the latest ABC News poll. Elizabeth Warren, who was merciless as she seized on recent revelations of Trump’s predatory sexual language and several allegations of sexual assault. Most strongly disapprove, a relatively rare result.
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Texas is considered one of the most reliable states for Republicans in presidential election years, but polls indicate that the race could be tight between Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump and Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton.
Meanwhile, the media is so swamped with covering the mudslinging between Trump and Clinton that they hardly ever cover third party candidates like Gary Johnson of the Libertarian Party, Jill Stein of the Green Party or Gloria la Riva of the Party for Socialism and Liberation.
Donald Trump painted an inaccurately dark portrait of manufacturing in America while Hillary Clinton stretched credulity in boasting that her spending plans won’t add to the country’s debt.
Over the past few days, Clinton has looked to boost Democratic candidates in part by condemning their Republican opponents who have either stood by Trump or have not outright disavowed him. The Washington Post will join ABC’s tracking survey later this week.
“We are behind. She has some advantages”, said his campaign manager Kellyanne Conway, who added: “We’re not giving up”. “If there is another increase in Latino voters, which there nearly certainly will be, followed with an increase in party registrants, this could become a real battleground in future elections”. It’s typically the case that college-educated white voters, who vote heavily, prefer the Republican nominee.
The outcome of November’s vote will also be felt around the world, with a Clinton victory boosting overseas stock markets as well, the researchers predict. While 71 percent of women disapprove of his handling of questions about his treatment of women, so do 67 percent of men.
Trump’s Florida swing continues Tuesday with an afternoon stop in Sanford at Million Air Orlando, then to Tallahassee later that night. For months, she deliberately avoided the strategy employed by other Democrats of trying to saddle all Republicans with an unpopular Trump.
The poll comes as Trump trails Clinton in a series of national polls, including a CNN Poll of Polls, which shows Clinton with a 9 percentage point lead. “They’re against all of you”, Trump told cheering supporters later in St. Augustine.
In Nevada, GOP strategist Robert Uithoven said early voting numbers are a worrisome sign for Trump’s campaign, which has already been lagging in polls in the Silver State.
Republican Party Chairman Reince Priebus said that by asking Trump to agree to concede, the media were making an extraordinary request.
As Trump battled to win over undecided voters, advisers and members of his inner circle sought to downplay his remarks about the integrity of the election, in an indication he would come under significant pressure to accept the election results if he were to lose. That jumps to 65 percent of independents and, again, 91 percent of Democrats. And the University of Houston poll also put Trump ahead by only 3 percent.
For Democrats, there’s another reason to try to run up the score.
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The survey was produced for ABC News by Langer Research Associates of NY, N.Y., with sampling, data collection and tabulation by Abt-SRBI of NY, N.Y. See details on the survey’s methodology here.
