With their first presidential debate just days away, Republican nominee Donald Trump and Democratic rival Hillary Clinton were respectively declared the front-runners in a pair of national polls released Thursday.
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The survey shows Clinton maintains her lead with a rapidly growing part of the population, even as her ability to maintain the support of younger voters and retain the backing of African Americans show signs of faltering. This has changed the tone in reporting from measuring up the White House curtains for Mrs Clinton to gloomily pondering the possibility of a Trump presidency, at least among Democrats and Never-Trump Republicans. Where Clinton leads, she leads by an average of 5 points.
Joyce Herwat, 62-year-old a homemaker, said she wasn’t just through with Mrs. Clinton but had given up on the Democratic Party and become a die-hard Trump supporter.
In recent polls of Iowans by Monmouth University, Emerson College and CBS News/YouGov have shown Trump leading by 8 percentage points, trailing by 8 and tied with Clinton, respectively.
The poll was conducted from September 16 to 19 among 782 likely voters in North Carolina. Among registered voters, she holds a 6-point lead over Trump – 49 percent to 43 percent. In a two-way race, Clinton leads 48% to 41%, according to the poll. His mediocre convention was followed by Hillary Clinton’s successful one, which was followed by Trump’s fight with the family of a Muslim servicemember who was killed in Iraq. The others will take place Sunday, Oct. 9 at Washington University in St. Louis (to be moderated by ABC’s Martha Raddatz and CNN’s Anderson Cooper) and Wednesday, Oct. 19 at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (Fox News’ Chris Wallace will moderate that one). However, when Hispanic voters were asked about the Affordable Care Act, a majority of the electorate in four of the five states (Colorado being the exception) favor repealing it.
Sixty-six percent said Trump’s temperament is the most concerning trait of either candidate.
Clinton has said she did exactly what she should have done when she used her private email server.
“The debate is gonna go forth, and I think you are gonna see a real contrast”, he said. Clinton’s support among women is under 50 percent – 47 percent to 37 percent.
Yet, as it turns out, more people like Clinton or Trump than people like the news media.
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“I am going to do my very best to communicate as clearly and fearlessly as I can in the face of the insults and the attacks and the bullying and the bigotry that we have seen coming from my opponent”, Clinton said on Tuesday on the Steve Harvey Radio show, per Reuters.
