While Donald Trump has gained in national polls, a comprehensive new state-by-state survey shows he has a steep hill to climb to achieve an electoral college majority on election day. “Well, can I, just.Does she look presidential, fellas?”
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Neither candidate scores the 270 electoral votes needed to win the presidency in the poll, but Clinton is within reach at 244 electoral votes based on the states considered solid or leaning Democratic in the poll. Among them, most surprisingly, is Texas, as well as Georgia and Arizona. Dozens of GOP national security leaders released a letter last month warning that Trump would risk the nation’s “national security and well-being”.
Trump beat Clinton 45- to 43% in the new CNN/ORC Poll, which showed stark divisions in the way different demographics plan to cast their ballots.
But at the same time, Clinton has faced new questions about her use of an unsecured, private email server during her tenure as the top USA diplomat from 2009 to 2013. The Drudge Report, which reignited questions about the former secretary of state’s health in August when it circulated a months-old photo of her slipping on a staircase, devoted its splash to the six-sentence NBC article along with the headline “GETTING WORSE: CLINTON COUGH VIOLENTLY RETURNS”.
It also shows Trump saying he had sacrificed a lot in comparison to families who have lost loved ones in conflict.
“Our veterans deserve better”, reads a line at the end of the ad, which is airing in Ohio, Florida, Iowa, Nevada and Pennsylvania.
A statement from the campaign Tuesday said the introduction, entitled “Love and Kindness – And Action” details Clinton’s upbringing and the things “she learned from her mother’s hard childhood”.
The Republican White House contender said the Mexican president violated some “ground rules” by admitting that the two did actually discuss payment of his proposed border wall between the two countries, but added, “that’s ok”.
Trump spoke in an interview aired Tuesday on ABC’s “Good Morning America”. He says, “it was discussed that it wouldn’t be discussed, but they know my stance and I know their stance”.
He added that had Clinton gone to Mexico, the trip would have been “a total failure”.
Trump said, “See who wins in the end, who will win”.
Mrs. Obama’s task will be to urge all voters, but especially young people, in hotly contested Virginia to support Clinton and running mate Tim Kaine in the November 8 election.
The first presidential debate on 26 could be the inflection point in the campaign.
Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton are pushing ahead in top presidential battlegrounds with Labor Day behind them.
Clinton holds a healthier lead in MA in the Post/SurveyMonkey survey, receiving 56% in a two-way race and 48% in a four-way contest, versus 33% and 29% for Trump, respectively.
Clinton and her running mate, Tim Kaine, were making a pronounced pitch on national security and defense policy on Tuesday, fanning out to military-rich communities of Tampa, Florida, and Wilmington, North Carolina.
These trends also translate into strength for Ms Clinton in several of the key swing states.
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In the fluid public opinion, several conventionally Republican states such as Arizona, Georgia and Texas appear willing to swing to the Democrats this time, while their support may be eroding in strongholds of Wisconsin, Pennsylvania and MI.
