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Trump & Clinton lead in new swing state polls

Biden comes closest with 55% seeing him favorably in Florida and 52% in Pennsylvania alongside 47% who view him favorably in Ohio.

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Similarly, the survey indicated Carson would be the best GOP candidate for the general election. Bush and former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee are both at 4%.

Appearing on Stephen Colbert’s Late Show on Tuesday, the host asked Clinton to set the record straight about a private phone conversation that took place between the former president and the would-be president in the weeks before Trump declared his candidacy and subsequently upended the 2016 race.

Her turnaround puts Clinton and Bernie sanders and against Vice President Joe Biden if he jumps in the race.

According to Mass Live, Trump did well in those swing states but nearly a third of voters from the same states said that they will not support the real estate mogul for the Republican Party’s presidential nomination.

According to the results, Trump is still the leading candidate in Florida with 28 percent of support among voters.

In Florida, the poll includes interviews with 1,173 registered voters, including 461 Republicans and 411 Democrats. “Republicans have been rewarded for moving further to the right”, he said, so a lot of people think “the Democrats will be even more effective if they move further to the left”. Barbara Boxer, moved from 3 percent to 13 percent.

New polls from Quinnipiac University out this week are not kind to Floridas own Jeb Bush and Marco Rubio. Fiorina followed with 8 percent and Cruz with 6 percent. Only 35 percent of Florida voters in the new poll said they thought she was honest and trustworthy, while 59 percent said she was not. He gets 41 percent to 42 percent for Fiorina. Rubio who is favored over his mentor the former Gov. Bush.

Quinnipiac’s Brown noted that aside from Trump, the other two outsider candidates, Carson and Fiorina, “also seem to be making progress”. Bernie Sanders of Vermont each get 19 percent. Only 14 percent would not vote for Clinton. Biden beat Bush with 46 percent to 42 percent.

Newlyweds Donald Trump Sr. and Melania Trump with Hillary Rodham Clinton and Bill Clinton at their reception held at The Mar-a-Lago Club in January 22, 2005 in Palm Beach, Fla. Sanders is seen as favorable by 36 percent and unfavorable by 29 percent. He trails Fiorina 43 – 39 percent and gets 40 percent to 43 percent for Rubio. Healthcare ranked as a top issue for just 17 percent of them, despite longstanding animosity toward President Barack Obama’s healthcare overhaul. Clinton, notably, saw her favorability ratings plummet after her campaign began in earnest this spring.

“Gov. John Kasich’s big card was his enormous popularity in Ohio, generally considered the most important swing state in the November election”, said Peter Brown, assistant director of the Quinnipiac University Polling Institute. “That truth has erased Trump’s lead”.

About 1-in-5 in each state say they wouldn’t back Bush, while roughly 1-in-8 in each state say they definitely will not vote for New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie.

But just like Trump, a lot of voters from the Democratic Party said that they have not yet given their full support to Clinton saying that they don’t exactly trust her.

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Clinton is down five percent from the August poll, while Biden is up eight percent.

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