According to the survey, released this week by Raleigh, N.C. -based Public Policy Polling, GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump is clinging to a two-point lead over Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton in SC – long-regarded as a dark red “Republican” stronghold.
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A new poll shows that Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton are statistically tied in deep red SC as Trump’s two-point lead is within the poll’s margin of error.
However, in the critical State of Florida, which has 29 electoral college votes, the race is still tight with Clinton leading by five percentage points.
In North Carolina, a state won by Mitt Romney by two points in 2012, Clinton led with 45 per cent to 36 per cent for Trump, nine per cent for Johnson, and two per cent for Stein, a decrease of two points for Trump.
The Democratic nominee’s upped her lead in the consumer survey amid a slew of national and battleground-state polls pointing to the increasing likelihood of a Clinton presidency.
Trump also called Obama “the founder of ISIS” for not leaving U.S. forces in Iraq and said that made Clinton “the co-founder”. (It was an eight-point Clinton lead before the conventions, 43 percent to 35 percent.) Obama won both Colorado and Virginia in the previous two presidential elections.
There have of course been reports that Democrats with an unfavorable view of Clinton are switching their support to Trump. For all of his talk of expanding the GOP, Trump is shrinking the Republican Party down to its whitest and most loyal core.
Donald Trump during an address to the National Association of Home Builders on Thursday in Miami Beach, Florida.
Just how close is the presidential race in SC?
The next day, Clinton published a column in Salt Lake City’s Deseret News titled “What I have in common with Utah leaders – religious freedom and the Constitution”. The poll found that she leads Trump 46 percent to 32 percent.
Foley’s appearance comes as Trump continues to bash Hillary Clinton after Seddique Mateen – the father of Orlando shooter Omar Mateen – attended her rally in Kissimmee, Florida on Monday. There is a 3.3 percent margin of error. The results include 448 Republicans, 305 Democrats and 265 others.
The more numbers like this there are over the next month, the more media coverage is going to shift to the Senate races.
Trump implied in a speech at a campaign rally in North Carolina on Tuesday that gun rights advocates have to stop Clinton from becoming president to appoint anti-gun judges. The trend over several polls has been 48 percent Democratic, 42 percent Republican and 9 percent independent.
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House Speaker Paul Ryan’s approval rating remains sky high in Wisconsin.
