Her aides are calling it “the Hillary coalition”, rather than “the Obama coalition”, distinguished by her dependence on an apparent surge of Hispanic voters, while Obama set records for African-American turnout.
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Democratic US presidential candidate Hillary Clinton holds a five-point lead over Republican Donald Trump in the latest Washington Post-ABC Tracking Poll released early on Sunday.
Trump said Clinton is so bogged down in legal problems that her election would plunge the United States into a constitutional crisis. Trump won the most primary votes ever by a Republican candidate for president. “We are going into different locations”, the tycoon said at a campaign stop.
In Real Clear Politics’ polling average, Trump now leads Hillary Clinton by three percentage points. “I feel very confident about how we’re going to do, but again – I feel confident about Pennsylvania and New Hampshire as well – but we’re spending a lot of time there because most of the voters are going to make the choice at the last minute because they can’t vote until then”.
A brief scare Saturday night disrupted Trump’s rally in Reno, Nevada, when Secret Service agents suddenly hustled the Republican nominee off the stage.
His entire campaign strategy has hinged on an aggressive schedule packed with massive rallies. Minnesota has not voted for a Republican since 1984.
FAYETTEVILLE, North Carolina (CNN) – President Barack Obama rebuked a crowd of Hillary Clinton supporters Friday after they shouted down a man holding a Donald Trump sign.
Clinton will urge Pennsylvanians to elect her president on Tuesday and continue pushing for the “American ideals of progress, inclusion, equality and strength”, that were enshrined in the Constitution in 1787, it said in a statement. He had four events planned that day.
Hillary Clinton’s chief adviser says Donald Trump is “essentially adopting Russian foreign policy and rejecting bipartisan USA foreign policy”. But she has these little crowds show up. Look no further than Nevada, where it appears as though Democrats have built an imposing early vote firewall that may only get breached by an extraordinary Republican showing on Tuesday.
Mrs Clinton, meanwhile, is enlisting the help of celebrities – Beyonce, Jay-Z, Jennifer Lopez, Pharrell Williams, Katy Perry, Jon Bon Jovi and Stevie Wonder – in her bid to ramp up voter turnout among millennials and black voters.
Dianne Bystrom, director of ISU’s Carrie Chapman Catt Center for Women & Politics, said the historical significance of Clinton being the first woman to win a major political party’s presidential nomination was overshadowed by a campaign shrouded in negativity driven by the 24-hour news cycle, talk radio and social media.
Mook dismissed suggestions that Clinton is bidding to shore up her crumbling firewall in the north, and predicted she would overturn Trump’s opinion poll lead in Florida.
Trump’s appeal among white voters may be enough to flip states like Iowa, which is more than 90 percent white, and OH, where Obama lost ground with white voters from his 2008 election and needed a spike in black turnout to pad his 160,000-vote statewide margin.
However, among those who have already cast their ballots, Clinton has a 12-point lead of 51% to Trump’s 39%, likely a result of her push for supporters to vote early. Clinton still enjoys a narrow nationwide advantage, a 2.1 percentage point lead according to a poll average by tracker RealClearPolitics.
Forty-one percent of independents support Trump, compared with 34% who back Clinton.
MI has voted Democratic in presidential races since Bill Clinton won the Midwestern state in 1992. This week, however, those numbers flipped and Republicans now narrowly believe he could win.
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Trump landed in Minnesota for a rally moments after Comey’s announcement. He supported U.S. Senator Ted Cruz of Texas during the primary, but now backs the NY businessman who has never previously run for political office. To the extent that “Never Trump” exists (disclosure: I’ve made my position clear on that front), that movement is quite small; it does not represent an unusual percentage of defectors or holdouts.
