Election day is quickly approaching, and voters in OH and Pennsylvania are split between both presidential candidates. Among registered voters who say they could change their minds between now and Election Day, 60% think Clinton will get the better of Trump at the debates and 38% expect the businessman to top the former secretary of state.
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Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton opened the final, two-month stretch of the USA presidential campaign on Monday in the battleground state of OH as the Republican nominee saw a strengthening in opinion poll numbers that put pressure on his heavily favored Democratic rival. That lead remains in a four-way race with Clinton at 44 percent support, Trump at 39 percent. A FiveThirtyEight forecast boosted Trump’s odds of victory in November to one in three.
To mount an authentic comeback, Trump must finally forge an emotional connection with voters outside his natural base, who have yet to embrace his vision of a nation under siege from terror and crime. Clinton in a tie at about 43 percent each, with Mr. Johnson at 7 percent. Clinton led 90 to 2 percent among Democrats. “Others” in the poll are defined as respondents who decline to pick either Clinton or Trump. She began September with more than $68 million in her campaign’s bank account to use against Trump, who has not yet released initial fundraising totals for August.
Still, Clinton can not afford to be complacent. And state polls can catch up to national polls.
“I’ve been talking so much”, she said.
Hillary Clinton struggled to get through a Labor Day rally in Cleveland on Monday, completely unable to speak through a coughing fit that lasted several minutes.
“I’m not concerned about conspiracy theories”, she exclaimed.
For now, at least, Trump has a steep hill to climb. Tossups, defined by the site as any state with a polling average margin under 5 points, account for 131 electoral votes. Rob Portman of OH is running a campaign that mirrors Clinton’s more than Trump’s ” disciplined, well-funded, and heavily centered on data ” and appears on track to hold his seat, even if Clinton carries the state in the presidential race.
“If Hilary Clinton were up one point in Texas, she would be here”, he said.
Trump leads Clinton by one point, 49-48, among likely voters in a head-to-head matchup.
Clinton spoke of teaching the occasional Sunday school class and being married for more than 40 years to former President Bill Clinton, a Southern Baptist, despite being a lifelong Methodist herself.
The Washington Post said the NY businessman paid the Internal Revenue Service a $2,500 penalty this year after it was revealed that his foundation had violated tax laws by giving a political contribution to a campaign group connected to Florida’s attorney general, Pam Bondi, who has endorsed Trump.
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Clinton’s plane – which has previously flown for Air Berlin, OrenAir & Corendon Dutch Airlines – was contracted by the campaign in the last month and is wrapped in Clinton’s blue “H” logo and “Stronger Together”, her general election campaign slogan. “The toughest route is an older-voter runaway and includes Iowa, Nevada, and Wisconsin”.
