That’s according to the Siena Research Institute Poll, which shows the former First Lady, New York Senator and Secretary of State with a 21 percent lead over Trump.
Advertisement
That fits with an overall finding that 33 percent of Trump supporters and about as many Clinton supporters say they’re voting at least partially in opposition to the other candidate. Each state sample consisted of 400 registered Hispanics with a margin of error of +/-4.9 percent at a 95 percent confidence level. Trump hasn’t said anything quite dumb enough recently to stop her free fall. It remains to be seen whether Bernie Sanders, the choice candidate on many college campuses during the primary season, will be an effective surrogate for Hillary Clinton, who urgently needs the student and millennial vote. Clinton is now getting just 54 percent of the vote there against Trump (who gets 25 percent support), whereas Obama received a whopping 76 percent of their votes in ’08 and 71 percent in 2012.
Trump led Clinton by 10 percentage points among men and by 7 percentage points among those without a college degree.
He further said that the immigration plan of his rival for the White House, Hillary Clinton, would bring in 620,000 refugees in her first term with no way to know if they are terrorists or not.
It’s only been about a week since Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump campaigned in Pennsylvania, but his campaign announced that he’ll return again Thursday for a public rally in Delaware County.
As Trump supporters at a packed rally in Florida shouted “Hang him!” the Republican presidential candidate mocked the fact that Ahmad Khan Rahami, a 28-year-old USA citizen originally from Afghanistan, would receive quality medical care and legal representation.
The latest Siena poll released Tuesday gives Clinton a lead of 51% to 30% statewide, essentially unchanged from a Siena poll a month ago.
Should he run for re-election in 2018, 49 percent of the responders said they would vote for someone else.
Before the event, Donald Trump sent a Tweet upon hearing that Mrs. Clinton had cancelled her fundraiser.
Forty-one percent of voters says Trump is honest and straightforward, compared with 31% who say that about Clinton.
Clinton still is viewed negatively by a majority of voters.
Trump started August in a big polling hole against Clinton and clawed back to almost a dead heat, even spending much less than Clinton. Hofstra’s president, Stuart Rabinowitz, said at the time, “We greatly appreciate the faith shown in us by the Commission on Presidential Debates”.
Advertisement
Voters in the Birmingham area will gather Monday night for a Debate Watch Party in support of their candidate.
