More than half of Hispanic voters (56 percent) said they plan to vote for Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton, while only 27 percent said they would back Trump, according to Morning Consult’s most recent national trend poll completed on August 14. The numbers show New Yorkers are strongly saying they don’t want Donald Trump come November 8.
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Frustratingly for Republicans, Trump’s missteps have overshadowed hard news for Clinton: The new release of 44 previously-unreleased email exchanges Clinton had while at the State Department.
Siena’s Steve Greenberg said it’s getting late for that to turn around.
“No Republican has carried New York State in a presidential election since Ronald Reagan in 1984”, said pollster Steve Greenberg.
Trump has repeatedly provoked controversy in the weeks since his formal nomination as the Republican presidential candidate in July, despite appeals from party leaders for him to focus on issues that could win him the election.
Clinton embraced the U.S. Olympic team’s success at a voter registration rally in Philadelphia, pointing to Team USA’s gold as an example of an optimistic nation that runs counter to what she considers Trump’s pessimism and negativity. And Clinton leads among New York City votes by a huge margin, as well as suburban, upstate and independent voters.
He did say that implementing the policy overhaul would require a temporary halt in immigration from “the most risky and volatile regions of the world that have a history of exporting terrorism”.
Concern has been widespread about the potential negative effects Trump could have on alliances if he is elected.
For instance, he called President Barack Obama the “founder” of the Islamic State, later insisting that he had meant that literally, and suggested that US gun owners could “do something” to prevent Clinton from winning the election, a remark that was widely interpreted as a call for violence, although his campaign roundly denounced that interpretation.
In his email Trump said he wanted a poll of his own to tout the next time he was being interviewed. “And not necessarily for good things”.
“New York state is an overwhelmingly Democratic state”, Jacobs says. Democrats already numerically have the majority but are split into two factions.
He also challenged Clinton’s fitness to be president, declaring she lacks the “mental and physical stamina” to take on the Islamic State.
Trump challenged Hillary Clinton’s fitness to serve as president and vowed to block anyone who sympathizes with radical extremists.
The Journal urged Trump’s backers to push the candidate to conduct himself with a more presidential demeanour and begin running a more disciplined campaign.
As for the state’s senate race, GOP incumbent Sen. He panned the long, expensive Iraq War started under Republican President George W. Bush, as well as Obama’s calls for new leadership in some Middle East countries during the pro-democracy Arab Spring uprisings.
For instance, Georgia – a state that hasn’t voted for voted for a Democrat since 1992 and won by Romney by 9 percent – is a statistical dead heat.
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Greenberg says the presidential race doesn’t look be “wait and see”. Are they all aboard the Trump train, or turned off by his rhetoric over building walls and banning Muslims?
