Donald Trump is leading Hillary Clinton among likely voters in the key battleground swing states of OH and Florida, according to new CNN/ORC polls in both states.
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“Horrible, horrible”, Trump said of Tuesday’s developments in Washington, D.C., when three of Clinton’s IT specialists refused to tell a House Oversight Committee the details of the server and email system Clinton had staff set up for her use at the family home in NY while she was Secretary of State.
After dipping in the daily LA Times/USC Dornsife tracking poll, Donald Trump is now leading Hillary Clinton by 3 points-45.8% to 42.8%.
A majority of voters backing Clinton and Trump respectively, meanwhile, largely attributed their support to wanting to oppose the other candidate. It’s not as if there are millions of “undecided” voters sitting around kitchen tables saying, “Well, I do like the way that Trump would quadruple the standard deduction, but on the other hand, Clinton makes a good point about gradually easing the capital gains rates on assets held for more than a year”. Under pressure, her campaign team has said it will release further medical records.
With most of the focus squarely on Clinton and Trump, their running mates remain widely unrecognized by most Hispanics. Sen.
Washington Post columnist Dana Milbank suggested Tuesday that Hillary Clinton wasn’t wrong in issuing her now-famous “deplorable” comments about supporters of Donald Trump.
“The race in Nevada is still tight, but the momentum has swung toward Trump”, said Patrick Murray, director of the independent Monmouth University Polling Institute. Clinton supporters are five times more likely to say that life is better now for people like them than it was 50 years ago, and almost twice as likely to think that things will be better still for the next generation.
“We need a president who not only understands the complex challenges facing women in America but also has a real plan to confront those challenges”.
Clinton does have a history of blood clots in her legs and since a fall in 2012, in which she suffered concussion, has been on blood thinners. More than half – 55% – hold an unfavorable view of the Republican candidate.
When it comes to the final presidential race, the Democrat and Republican candidates will go head to head to win the 50 American states.
Trump also saw a significant improvement in his support among those earning more than $75,000 a year. And now everybody who doesn’t want him to be president is trying to figure out why – and whether he’s going to keep gaining.
Trump won’t win over anywhere near a majority of the voters he’s alienated, but his unusual charisma positions him to win over more than most similarly outrageous candidates would be able to. The Libertarian candidate Gary Johnson received 13 percent of the support. Sherrod Brown, leading his Republican challenger, State Treasurer Josh Mandel, by an average of 6 percentage points. Her favorability rating there is worse than Trump’s, even among the broader pool of registered voters.
The pollster found Trump leads by 23 points in rural Kansas and by 7 points in suburban Kansas.
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All four polls had a 3.8 percentage margin of error.
