Clinton has also widened her fundraising gap over Trump.
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Clinton has 44 percent support in Virginia to Trump’s 37 percent, according to a Roanoke College poll released Thursday. Today’s numbers indicate Clinton’s largest margin since a Fox News poll from August 31 that gave her a 6-point edge.
The tightness of the race makes the upcoming presidential debates, the first of which is Monday, all the more important, Franklin said.
Hillary Clinton campaigns in Philadelphia on Monday. That said, she needs to stop her slide. Neither campaign has elected to advertise on television here.
History shows that a single bad debate performance can alter the trajectory of a US presidential race.
The poll surveyed 1,000 registered voters from September 16 to 19 and has a margin of error of 3.1 percentage points.
Large numbers of voters in both parties are dissatisfied with their standard-bearers.
Disagreement with presidential candidates is common among both Democrat and Republican parties. A small portion is crossing over to support the other party’s nominee.
Clinton is still ahead in Pennsylvania where she is up 6.6 percentage points against Trump according to Real Clear Politics.
Clinton has also lost some support among women voters, though she’s still ahead with women by 22 points. And it’s telling that 56% of poll respondents said they believed, regardless of how they are voting personally, that Clinton will be the next president. He’s getting 17% of the Republican voters who didn’t want Trump as their nominee and 15% of the Democratic voters who didn’t want Clinton as their nominee.
The latest polls show the race is the closest it has been since June. It is still not clear whether the presence of Johnson and Stein is hurting Clinton more than Trump or Trump more than Clinton.
“Those cases, which together used $258,000 from Trump’s charity, were among four newly documented expenditures in which Trump may have violated laws against “self-dealing”-which prohibit nonprofit leaders from using charity money to benefit themselves or their businesses”.
“But you don’t know whether it will dissipate or not”, Franklin said. Those saying they have “major” concerns totals 54 percent. Chris Megerian reports that during her speech in Orlando, Clinton called the situation “intolerable“, while Trump said he was “very troubled”.
The survey – which was conducted after Clinton’s return to the campaign trail following her bout with pneumonia – shows a bigger advantage for the secretary of state than did polls taken during the heightened scrutiny of her health. He parted ways with Trump in mid-June – and was immediately hired as a CNN contributor – but his Green Monster firm received a $20,000 payment for “strategy consulting” August 11, the same amount it has regularly been paid for months.
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