59% of likely voters in Virginia, a state with an especially large veteran population, say his response to the Khans has been inappropriate, along with 53% in Arizona and 57% in Nevada.
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“The people of this country don’t want someone who will short-circuit up here”.
Whether Toomey is right is a key question this year, as Republicans battle to defend Senate seats in battleground states including Pennsylvania, Ohio, New Hampshire and Florida.
Republicans’ strategy all year has been to run Senate races that are intently focused on local issues, as if they were running for sheriff.
When third-party candidates are added to the mix, Clinton still comes in first place.
In contrast, Trump is winning 83 percent of self-identified Republicans, almost identical to the 82 percent support he had among Republicans before his convention in Cleveland. And the newspaper reports that “a majority of Trump backers said they see their decision as a vote against Clinton” as opposed to a vote for Trump.
Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani says Trump’s endorsements, coming after his refusal to endorse the trio, show that Trump “has the ability and the understanding to realize that there are going to be disagreements and you’ve got to be able to reach out to the entire party”. Gingrich said Trump could offset tax losses by overturning Obama administration regulations and from expanded energy exploration revenues.
The poll found huge gaps in voters’ take on the two candidates’ attributes. “She’s incompetent and I don’t think that you can even think of allowing this woman to become president of the United States”.
Clinton has nearly-unanimous Democratic backing at the moment while Trump isn’t doing as well with his fellow Republicans: she has 95 percent of the state’s Democrats compared to 79 percent of GOP-ers for Trump.
Republicans note that Trump became known to the public not as a member of their party, but as a mogul and reality TV star, which might help voters differentiate him from down-ballot GOP candidates.
Overall, Trump still struggles with negative opinions: just 36 percent of voters say they have a favorable impression of Trump, while 61 percent have unfavorable views of the billionaire.
Republican Donald Trump’s top aides and supporters on Sunday downplayed a chaotic week in which the NY businessman was distracted from his core message by personal spats, as a new poll showed him trailing Democrat Hillary Clinton. “Look up the word ‘BRAINWASHED.'” Trump spoke the day after he ended a standoff with House Speaker Paul Ryan and endorsed his re-election bid.
“We need unity. We have to win this election”, Trump told a rally in Ryan’s state of Wisconsin.
“Honestly, I don’t think she’s all there”, he added.
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Trump’s latest barrage of attacks against Clinton – while not a departure from his brand of personal and aggressive attacks against his opponents – did mark an escalation in his attacks, just as Clinton and her allies are stepping up their attacks against Trump.
