Trump enjoys a 10 point lead over Clinton among military households, according to a recent poll from NBC News/SurveyMonkey Weekly Election Tracking Poll.
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Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton addresses the National Convention of the American Legion in Cincinnati, Ohio, U.S., August 31, 2016.
That 2-point gap is a huge drop from the 11-point advantage that Clinton has in the Real Clear Politics average of Virginia polls. But Trump’s starting point was far lower, and below that of a typical Republican candidate.
National polls have tightened since the end of two major parties’ national convention in late July, but Clinton maintains leads in nearly all battleground states.
Democrats have continually pressed for Arizona GOP Rep. Martha McSally to publicly say whether she supports Trump, but she has managed to avoid questions. So much so that the campaign is now preparing for a landslide victory, an unthinkable possibility for the Democratic candidate only two months ago.
The poll found Clinton (47 percent) maintains a healthy lead over Trump (40 percent) among registered voters in the key swing state.
And while Mr Trump has consolidated his support among Republicans, likely voters are expressing an increasingly sour view of Mrs Clinton: The share of likely voters with an unfavorable view of the former secretary of state has grown to 57 per cent, compared with Mr Trump’s 54 per cent, her worst showing on that metric in a month. On border security he said, “I have to say Hillary would do a better job than Trump because Trump would just alienate and agitate the countries around us”.
But in Iowa, Clinton trails Trump by five percentage points, indicating that the race to the White House is tightening now. In Jones’ case, he pledged earlier this year he would back Trump, but eased off that in a radio interview in August after the fallout this summer from Trump’s attacks on a Gold Star family. Straayer said some Republican voters who ordinarily would donate money to their party’s presidential nominee likely have shifted some of that money to U.S. Senate candidates. 21 percent declined to pick either of the two leading candidates. And among those choosing a candidate, 9 percent said they still could change their minds. Trump was warmly received by the group, including Daphne Goggins, a local Republican official, who wiped away tears as she introduced herself to Trump, saying she’s been a Republican most her life, but, “for the first time in my life, I feel like my vote is going to count”. Kerry believes the al-Qaida leader cost him the presidency by issuing a videotape that criticized Bush and warned USA voters that “your security is in your own hands” in the election.
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Clinton had a 5 percentage point lead over Trump (43 percent to 38 percent) in the Monmouth University poll of Wisconsin voters.
