Hillary Clinton is leading Donald Trump by 6 points ahead of the first debate on Monday, according to a new national poll released Wednesday. Libertarian Party nominee Gary Johnson is at 9% and the Green Party’s Jill Stein is at 3%.
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In a head-to-head between the two major party nominees, Clinton’s lead expands to seven percentage points, 48 per cent to 41 per cent. “My biggest concern is not a view of any moderator, but just that people [adjust] their questions … to suit the candidate in front of them”. Twenty-nine percent of likely voters reported they were most concerned with Clinton’s private email server. Sixty-eight per cent of Canadians had a favourable view of America in a Pew poll a year ago; 26 per cent were unfavourable. The House had a 61 percent to 29 percent disapproval rating. At least, those are the images candidates will have to overcome to win.
Here & Now’s Jeremy Hobson speaks with historian Julian Zelizer about some of the most important moments in presidential debate history, and what each campaign’s strategy might look like next week.
Sam Stovall, chief US equity strategist at S&P Global Market Intelligence, said the debate could matter for markets. “We can not let it go on”. “I think the seriousness of that can’t be understated and that we’re going to see the debate prep making sure that she’s not going to be able to pull him somehow off the message”, he said.
Ms Clinton has been taking days away from the campaign trail to prepare and rehearse ahead of Monday’s debate, which will be held at Hofstra University on Long Island.
Given both candidates’ abysmally low favorability ratings, the news stories of the past week have only served to reinforce numerous negative traits that the candidates have often failed to shake. “Iowa, with a voting bloc that is overwhelmingly white, lacks the kind of large minority population that has fueled Hillary Clinton’s lead in some of the large industrial states”, Assistant Director of the Quinnipiac Poll Peter Brown said. The university’s Business and Economics Polling Initiative polled 400 registered Hispanic voters from September 15-19, and the poll has an error margin of 4.9 percentage points.
“While Hillary is listening to a team of psychologists and advisors to teach her what to say, I’m turning to the very people who got me where I am today… YOU”. “He hasn’t been in Washington for 30 years and he’s not an insider”. We need to have that camaraderie and we don’t.
Laura Phillips, 52, an art teacher from Seaford, who supported Vermont Sen.
“They’re racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamophobic, you name it”, she said.
William Sanders, 79, a retiree from Williston Park, is undecided and said he faces a hard decision.
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This will be the first of three. “They were mature, grown men with worldwide and national experience”.
