In the matchup against Mrs. Clinton, Republican support for Mr. Trump jumped to 86%, from 72% in mid-April, and the share of GOP voters who said they would support Mrs. Clinton fell to 6% from 13% a month earlier.
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“Do I think she is the kind of chair that the Democratic Party needs?” A Washington Post-ABC News poll released on Sunday showed Trump with a 2-point lead over Clinton, within the margin of error.
Clinton said Trump “has to prove that he actually has the level of success he claims to have”. Clinton said he’s likely never had “a single negative ad run against him”, whereas she’s dealt with that for decades. Bernie Sanders on how to unite the party – and a delegate process that has riled the Vermont lawmaker’s campaign and supporters.
Sanders said that if he won the White House, he would not reappoint U.S. Representative Debbie Wasserman Schultz as DNC chairwoman.
Mrs. Clinton leads the NY businessman, 46% to 43%, in a test matchup between the two likely nominees, the poll finds.
Recalling how she stayed late into her failed 2008 primary race against now-President Obama, Clinton said that Sanders, campaigning hard this weekend in California ahead of the state’s June 7 primary, has “every right to finish off his campaign however he chooses”.
But 53% favor a potentially unpredictable candidate who will “bring major changes to the way government operates”, compared with 43% who want someone with “a steady approach…even it means fewer changes”.
“Well, if you look – No, I wouldn’t describe it, but that’s what the American people are saying”, Sanders replied.
Trump speaks at the National Rifle Association convention on Friday in Louisville. The underdog candidate said only if Clinton came onboard with a number of his policy proposals ranging from climate change to health care, did he believe his supporters would shift their allegiance to her.
“What happened is people were rude, that’s not good, they were booing, that’s not good, they behaved in some ways that were a little bit boorish, not good, but let’s not talk about that as violence”, he said on ABC.
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Hillary Clinton went straight for the heart of the myth of Donald Trump by calling the presumptive Republican nominee “pretend successful” while on NBC’s Meet The Press. “Despite all the political noise we are actually united on this issue”, Clinton said.
