In Tuesday’s Real Clear Politics poll average, Trump trailed Clinton by 3.3 percentage points.
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Drawing on notes the Federal Bureau of Investigation released four days earlier from its interview with Clinton, Trump blasted Clinton for telling the Federal Bureau of Investigation at least 39 times that she could not remember details of classified information procedures and instructions. Remember…. most of those people are up, but I’m higher than some of them, so it’s very interesting. Clinton, the Democrat, is campaigning in Florida in search of an advantage in the nation’s largest swing state.
“I think we’re up to 89, but who’s counting?” she quipped, noting how several Republican national security figures have openly endorsed her or oppose Trump.
Neither New Yorker vying for the presidency is expected to commemorate the 15th anniversary of the September 11th attacks with a visit to the site where two hijacked airliners took down the World Trade Center towers and killed thousands of people.
“We’re going to make this economy grow, but we’re also going to make it fair”, Clinton said.
To the surprise of some reporters, Clinton returned to the back of the plane on Tuesday.
Tampa Mayor Bob Buckhorn, a Clinton supporter, pointed to the hard-knuckled political battle ahead and urged Clinton to hit Trump relentlessly. Whites who do not hold college degrees support Trump by an nearly 3-to-1 margin (68% to 24%) while whites who do have college degrees split 49% for Clinton to 36% for Trump and 11% for Johnson.
Still, the crowd wasn’t uniformly in support of Clinton. Although direct comparison between the poll’s two-way, head-to-head matchup and its four-way matchup doesn’t suggest that Johnson is pulling disproportionately from either candidate, his supporters come mostly among groups where a strong third-party bid could harm Clinton’s standing: Younger voters (particularly younger men), whites with college degrees, and independents, notably. And state polls can catch up to national polls.
While enthusiasm for the campaign has continued to inch up, it remains well off the mark compared with this point in other recent presidential election years. “They have no respect for our country”, he said. This newspaper has not recommended a Democrat for the nation’s highest office since before World War II – if you’re counting, that’s more than 75 years and almost 20 elections.
“That, Donald Trump, is what American honor” looks like, she said. The lack of enthusiasm spikes among Clinton supporters. And with respect to our allies he would toss our alliances aside, and says he wants to – quote – take everything back from the world that we’ve given them. The shift among these voters since the convention is largely due to a rebound in Trump’s numbers rather than a slide in Clinton’s.
We’ve been critical of Clinton’s handling of certain issues in the past.
Voters prefer Ms. Clinton on immigration policy, 49-47, and her solid lead is on foreign policy. On that, 49% favor Clinton’s approach, 47% Trump’s.
“House Republicans asked the Justice Department on Tuesday to investigate whether Hillary Clinton, her lawyers and the company that housed her email account obstructed justice when emails were deleted from her personal server”.
“We’re going to make that decision into the future”, Trump said.
Clinton continues to be seen as holding the better temperament to serve effectively as president (56% to 36%) and better able to handle the responsibilities of commander in chief (50% to 45%).
While Trump and his advisers have argued that Clinton did not learn from the mistakes of the Iraq War, which she voted for as a senator, and drove the U.S. into another blunder by arguing in favor of military intervention in Libya, Trump supported both of those military interventions. “That means giving the Pentagon the stable, predictable funding it needs to make smart investments”, she said last week at the American Legion in Cincinnati. And you need a presidential look, you have to get the job done.
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Instead, most are keeping the controversial GOP nominee at arms length, rebuking him when they believe he’s said something offensive. The survey includes results among 886 registered voters and 786 likely voters. Both are within the margin of error.
