“With national polling reflecting a surge of momentum for Donald Trump, the pressure is squarely on Hillary Clinton to live up to her reputation as a talented debater at a time when millions of undecided voters will be glued to their screens”, RNC chief strategist Sean Spicer said in a statement.
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In a two-way matchup, Clinton leads Trump by 7 points, 48% to 41%.
But Clinton has some weaknesses.
Trump has eschewed the kind of mock debate setups candidates traditionally use to get ready for the high-pressure events and hasn’t tapped anyone to play Clinton in his prep sessions.
Trump also leads Clinton by five points apiece in North Carolina (45-40) and OH (42-37). “We did it in NY, it worked incredibly well and you have to be proactive and, you know, you really help people sort of change their mind automatically, you understand, you have to have, in my opinion, I see what’s going on here, I see what’s going on in Chicago, I think stop-and-frisk”. “She is going to be very, very able to deal with that”, Kaine said at an event today in Reno, Nevada. “Ronald Reagan was not expected to carry NY”. Greenberg said for that to come true, Trump would need to make some pretty substantial gains in blue New York City, where Clinton is ahead by 60 points.
Several of his proposals for preventing the spread of radical Islamic terrorism have already been implemented by the Obama administration and are shared by his opponent, Hillary Clinton, too.
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump’s campaign accused the White House of downplaying the threat poised by Islamic State, seeking to lay blame following a series of weekend bomb and other incidents.
Trump is viewed unfavorably by almost 70 percent of New Yorkers. Greenberg said perhaps not.
A large number of “Obama Surge” voters, in the terminology of Steve Phillips in his bestselling book Brown is the New White, who are progressive and should be reliably in Clinton’s camp, remain unenthusiastic and unconvinced that Clinton will be an effective and forceful enough agent of change on the issues they care about most.
The stakes are high for both candidates.
Palmieri said Clinton was in a good mood about the debate and was reviewing materials every day. “It bodes well for incumbent legislators”. Meanwhile, the most prominent social issue in millennials’ formative years has been the fight for marriage equality and equal protections for LGBTQ Americans. Economic issues are rated as very or extremely important by 92 percent of voters, more than say the same of the USA role in world affairs (68 percent), the threat posed by the Islamic State group (70 percent) or immigration (60 percent).
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The Senate also approved two traditionally non-Republican but popular items, as did the Democratic-led Assembly – raising the state’s minimum wage and enacting partial paid family leave.
