Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, speaking to a US veterans group on Wednesday, made an open appeal to Republican and independent voters concerned about rival Donald Trump’s national security credentials and his fitness for office.
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Those ratings are Clinton’s worst in the quarter century she has spent in public positions, though still ahead of Trump’s 35-63 split. In the longer term, the effort harkens to former DNC Chair Howard Dean’s 50-state strategy.
The money will help bankroll Clinton’s large advertising campaign in battleground states that will help determine the outcome of the 2016 election, along with the large get-out-the-vote operation that her team has been assembling across the country.
US Democratic presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton would “destabilise the world” if she wins the White House, French far-right leader Martine Le Pen has told CNN.
Donald Trump speaks during a campaign rally Tuesday in Everett, Wash. “It is unsurprising that they hold two different views on this issue, and we look forward to continuing the conversation”, said Jason Miller, senior communications advisor of the Trump campaign.
“I want nothing to do with Mexico”, Trump said in a past tweet.
While Clinton world is making this foray into the two states, Priorities USA, her top dollar super PAC, maintains that it has no plans to spend in Arizona. “Others” in the poll are defined as respondents who decline to pick either Clinton or Trump.
Donald Trump’s campaign has yet to release its fund-raising total over the past month, but the real-estate mogul has consistently trailed Clinton throughout the election cycle in donations.
The split on Medicaid was 54 percent trusting Clinton and 37 percent trusting Trump. The latest USC/Los Angeles Times poll has a 45 to 42 percent lead over Clinton.
Building alliances and trust with other nations, Clinton said, takes “more than a photo op, it takes consistency and reliability”.
Both she and Trump are galvanizing support from about 75 percent of their parties’ registered voters.
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The survey reflects interviews with 736 Pennsylvania registered voters, including 358 Democratic, 286 Republican and 92 Independents conducted by the Center for Opinion Research at Franklin & Marshall College from August 25 to 29.
