The Democratic Party will formally nominate Hillary Rodham Clinton this week at their convention in Philadelphia, Pa. will she be back in the lead next week? Pre-convention, independents split 34% Clinton to 31% Trump, with sizable numbers behind Johnson (22%) and Stein (10%). The controversy led to party Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz announcing on the eve of the convention’s start that she would step down when it ended.
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National polls don’t have a large enough sample to accurately reflect the state of play in key battlegrounds, and there is little information thus far on how Trump’s convention performance has affected the presidential race state-by-state.
Clinton also poked at the Republican Party’s lack of unity, highlighted by a speech in which Texas Sen.
“The party now needs new leadership that will open the doors of the party and welcome in working people and young people”, Sanders said in a statement following the Florida congresswoman’s announcement.
The new findings mark Trump’s best showing in a CNN/ORC Poll against Clinton since September 2015. You know what happened, but we’ll briefly recount it for you anyway: Soon after Melania Trump’s address to the Cleveland convention a week ago, it was discovered that a couple of passages appeared largely lifted from Michelle Obama’s 2008 Democratic convention address in Denver. “I think she put the party ahead of herself”.
More than four in 10 voters said the convention gave them a more favorable impression of the Republican Party, and three in 10 said it gave them a less favorable view of the Democratic Party.
Polls have shown that majorities of voters dislike both Clinton and Trump, him more so than her. “He sure doesn’t speak for me because I know we are stronger together”.
“His vision of America is one where we Americans are kind of helpless”.
Nearly half – 48 percent – rated Trump’s speech as good or excellent, essentially tied with the speech given by his daughter, Ivanka Trump, but higher than his running mate, Mike Pence, or Republican National Committee chairman Reince Priebus. Among white voters with college degrees, Clinton actually gained ground compared with pre-convention results, going from an even 40% to 40% split to a 44% to 39% edge over Trump.
“Are we a nation that kicks out a striving, hopeful immigrant like Astrid, or are we a nation that finds a way to welcome her in?”
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A better measure, he said, will come when both conventions are over.
