Real Clear Politics, which averages the results of several polls, has Clinton ahead by about 8 points. That is based on a survey of 1,162 registered voters, with a confidence interval of 3 percentage points.
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Ex-New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani said Wednesday that the Clinton campaign and the press were misconstruing Trump’s words.
In 2008, when President Obama was talking about his political opponents, he said: “If they bring knives, we will use guns”. -Mexican border and temporarily banning Muslims from entering the country.
An August 5-8 Reuters/Ipsos poll found that almost one-fifth of 396 registered Republicans wanted Trump to drop out of the race and another 10 percent said they didn’t know whether he should give up.
Republicans have expressed frustration that this story was dominating the political coverage, when Mr Trump could have been attacking Mrs Clinton for emails that have just been released by conservative group Judicial Watch. They say the Second Amendment gives citizens the right to rebel against a tyrannical government, and that this right is rooted in the very foundation of the republic. “The support he has from Republicans nearly seems obligatory rather than voluntary”.
U.S. Secret Service had spoken to Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump’s campaign about his controversial gun rights comments, local media said on Wednesday.
“Yesterday we witnessed the latest in a long line of casual comments by Donald Trump that crossed the line”, Clinton, the Democratic nominee, told supporters in Des Moines, Iowa. “And I think that the American people know what he means”.
But back to the throw-away line (if, in fact, you can do a throw-away assassination line), in which he was discussing the “horror” of Hillary Clinton winning the election and appointing judges who would do away with the Second Amendment and possibly Article II, as well.
In response to the poll numbers, Walker on Wednesday defended his record, and did not step back his support of Trump. It lists 50 prominent Republicans and Independents who have endorsed her so far, including former NY mayor Michael Bloomberg.
“It feels like he’s not even trying to be a decent person who we should look up to”.
Trump rode such events to great success in the primaries, when each of Trump’s eyebrow-raising statements – including a moment when he appeared to mock a disabled journalist and his repeated retelling of a debunked story about USA soldiers dipping bullets in pig’s blood – earned him a tremendous amount of attention and carried little electoral outcome.
In addition, 50 prominent national security experts signed an open letter saying they would not vote for Trump in the fall, saying he “lacks the character, values, and experience” to be president.
Trump has dismissed the defections and criticism as an unsurprising reaction of the so-called Washington elite to his drive to change the status quo.
Stacie McDaniel, 42, said Trump’s rhetoric has, at times, made her think he should drop out of the race.
Trump again got embroiled in a political firestorm on Tuesday after suggesting that supporters of gun rights could take action against Clinton if Clinton wins the election. “I don’t like her”, said Smith, a 74-year-old retiree who lives in Clearwater, Florida.
While Trump certainly incites opposition, Clinton attracts her fair share of dislike, too.
In media interviews, Trump has regularly offered his economic outlook.
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The fallout was swiftly reflected in the polls: A Washington Post-ABC News survey found Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton suddenly leading by eight points; a Wall Street Journal-NBC News survey found her winning by nine; and a McClatchy-Marist survey had her topping the businessman by 15 points.
