A Reuters/Ipsospoll released last Friday, gave Clinton a 5-point lead over Trump, 41 percent to 36 percent, a 7-point drop for the Democratic ticket from the poll’s previous edition.
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Steve Schmidt, a Republican strategist who worked for 2008 Republican presidential nominee John McCain, said Trump’s attention to minority outreach was unusual for the party and also unlikely to quickly yield results. This brought the RealClearPolitics average of recent polls in the Hawkeye State to a +1 advantage for Trump, for the first time since the candidates held their respective conventions in mid-July. Those numbers were scheduled to be updated later Friday.
In recent weeks, Mrs Clinton has come under renewed criticism over her handling of classified information while serving as U.S. secretary of state, and her family’s charitable foundation has come under fresh scrutiny for the donations it accepted while Mrs Clinton served in the Obama administration.
The survey was actually conducted before Trump’s controversial meeting with Mexican president Enrique Peña Nieto and subsequent anti-immigration speech that had even some of Trump’s Latino surrogates withdrawing their support.
Clinton’s haul comes just weeks after campaign manager Robby Mook sent a memo to top-level donors warning that GOP nominee Donald Trump “could outraise us” now that he had started fundraising in earnest.
Larry Sabato, director of the University of Virginia Center for Politics, said he remains convinced Clinton is ahead, somewhere in the range seen among the polling aggregators.
“People say, Mr Trump, that you have no African-American support”. Clinton got a substantial bounce this year that lasted for a full month.
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In a separate question in the Reuters/Ipsos poll that included alternative-party candidates, Clinton and Trump were tied at 39 percent.
