“It’s like he’s giving up if he endorses her”, said Steve Rand, a hardware store owner from Plymouth, New Hampshire, before the two candidates took the stage.
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The campaign at times turned bitter, but Clinton, accepting Sanders’ endorsement at the rally, contrasted it with the Republican primaries, where Trump often belittled his opponents. Hillary is two weeks away from becoming the party nominee, and she is smart in trying to build relationships as soon as possible before November.
With third-party candidates included in the field, Trump still leads with 40 percent, followed by Clinton at 34 percent, Libertarian Party candidate Gary Johnson at 9 percent and Green Party candidate Jill Stein at 3 percent.
Heading into the Democratic convention, Clinton has tried to present herself as a unifying figure against Republican Donald Trump. Clinton said that as president she would urge white Americans to gain a better understanding of the anxiety many blacks feel in dealing with law enforcement.
Trump still leads among men, though his support narrowed slightly: 48 – 37 percent backed him this month, compared to 50 – 33 percent last month. There may be some Bernie fans who’d grudgingly resigned themselves to support her and were then reminded anew by the Federal Bureau of Investigation that she’s a well-connected sleaze.
“Donald Trump wants to throw 20 million people off of the health insurance they now have and cut Medicaid”, Sanders said. In the poll last month, each won 40 percent. If there’s new hesitation among Latinos towards backing her, that’s game-changing news.
A majority of Pennsylvanians polled in a recently released Quinnipiac University Poll reveals that they think public officials “don’t care much what people like me think”.
Clinton cited his remarks against Muslims, Mexicans and women. Maybe we’ll see that after the convention.
The Qunnipiac poll surveyed 1,015 Florida voters via land line and cell phones.
But Clinton also looked inward during her remarks, telling assembled guests that political divisions have caused fear and anxiety to fester and that she realizes she “cannot stand here and claim that my words and actions haven’t sometimes fueled the partisanship that often stands in the way of our progress”. It may be that her lead is a bit stronger than this poll suggests.
But the biggest determiner of who the voters will go for is defined by race.
Mr Trump, 70, who is expected to be formally crowned Republican candidate next week, has been attempting to win over Sanders supporters.
“Bernie Sanders, who has lost most of his leverage, has totally sold out to Crooked Hillary Clinton”, Trump wrote on Twitter.
A Quinnipiac University poll has good news for Trump in Florida and Pennsylvania.
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“In Florida, Donald Trump is getting only 21 percent of the non-white vote”, Brown said.
