As attention now shifts to a general election showdown between Clinton and Donald Trump, some die-hard Sanders supporters say they are as repelled by Clinton as they are by Trump, with some promising to either vote for Trump, Green Party candidate Jill Stein, or even write in Sanders’ name.
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The results also show many voters still have highly unfavorable views of both candidates.
The challenges facing the country require “a president who can help pull us together, not split us apart”, Clinton said, pointing to presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump’s divisive comments about women, Muslims, immigrants and others.
Though the FBI chose to not recommend criminal charges against Clinton, director James Comey issued a sharply worded rebuke during an explanatory press conference for her “extremely careless” email practices, and the findings revealed by the investigation contradicted some of the public statements Clinton has made when explaining her email use.
That poll put her at a nine-point advantage, 45 percent to 36 percent, with 19 percent saying neither or undecided. The margin of error for the sample of registered voters is three points. And they find Clinton leading in Wisconsin (where Marquette finds Clinton up 4 points in a two-way race and up 6 points in a four-way race), a state in which Obama beat Romney by 7 points.
Forty-four percent think “cares about people like you” applies better to Clinton, while 31 percent say Trump.
But he said Clinton lost ground to Trump on questions that measure moral standards and honesty.
The polls have bucked the Clinton campaign into overdrive, with a resolved effort to continue working hard in the battleground states.
Trump is preferred among whites (48-34 percent), men (43-37 percent), white evangelical Christians (64-23 percent), and whites without a college degree (57-28 percent).
“Heck, he couldn’t even get her to dump [Democratic National Committee chairperson] Debbie Wassserman-Schultz”, he noted. The race is much tighter in OH, where Trump leads by just 1 percent.
“Secretary Clinton has won the Democratic nominating process, and I congratulate her for that”, Sanders said Tuesday at a joint appearance in New Hampshire.
Trump spent months “trying to discredit the citizenship and legitimacy of our first black president”, Clinton said.
There are going to be people who sit here and point out Libertarian presidential candidate Gary Johnson is also doing outreach to Sanders supporters. Feingold dropped a couple of points and Johnson added a couple since June, when Feingold held a 51 percent to 42 percent lead.
In fact on 27 percent of voters are very enthusiastic about voting in the 2016 presidential election, and they are less enthusiastic now than they were at the beginning of the year, when 33 percent said at the time they where very enthusiastic.
Each candidate landed support from 40 percent of registered voters in the New York Times/CBS News poll.
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That last line is what Trump is counting on, which is why his campaign is now releasing a stream of “Bernie Betrayal” emails.
