Hillary Clinton, left, speaks on June 15, 2016, in Hampton, Virginia.
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Richard Hanna asked, in an op-ed published in The Post-Standard newspaper of Syracuse, New York, “where do we draw the line”, responding to Donald Trump’s attack on the parents of a slain Muslim-American soldier.
Trump used this extreme characterisation of Clinton when speaking about the decision of Senator Bernie Sanders from Vermont to support her in the election.
That tweet was published shortly after Fareed Zakaria, host of CNN’s “Fareed Zakaria’s Global Positioning System”, ridiculed Trump for saying Russian President Vladimir Putin “is not going into Ukraine, you can mark it down”, despite the Russian annexation of Crimea in 2014. The television network’s poll in the days after Trump claimed the Republican nomination more than a week ago showed the race tied at 42 apiece.
The debate schedule is set by the nonpartisan Commission on Presidential Debates, which said in a statement that it “did not consult with any political parties or campaigns” when setting the dates. And when people finally realized I’m not doing their shows, they stopped watching.
Trump’s main opponent, Democrat Hillary Clinton, also made stops through the so-called Rust Belt over the weekend, touting her message of better pay to boost the middle class. Only about 16% of voters say their minds could change in the 99 days left between now and Election Day. Khizr Kahn that night lectured Trump from the convention dais in Philadelphia, telling the GOP nominee, “You have sacrificed nothing and no one”. “That’s what happens”, he said. So have many other news outlets. Even among Republicans, just 38 percent saw their nominee as generating more national unity. What would drive Republicans is to remind them all of the reasons we don’t want Hillary Clinton.
Mary Smith, a 79-year-old retired secretary in Willow Oak, Florida, rated the U.S.as the greatest country, saying she witnessed the goodness of its people as she moved from city to city with her late husband, a Navy submarine sailor.
Trump responded by implying Ghazala Khan’s religion preventing her from speaking at the convention, though she later said talking publicly about her late son was still too hard.
The 49% saying the DNC made them feel more apt to vote for Clinton is the fourth highest in CNN/ORC and Gallup polling, dating back to the 1984 Democratic convention.
“The people in OH, the people in the Rust Belt – and they call it the Rust Belt for a reason, because everything’s rusting and rotting – you lost your jobs”. He frequently uses the news media as a foil during his speeches and interviews. And among Republican and Republican-leaning men, 28% called Clinton’s speech bad, vs. just 18% of Republican and Republican-leaning women. Among Democrats and independents who lean toward the Democratic Party, 84% now feel the party will be united by November, up from 75% before either convention.
Republican Party unity, meanwhile, has faded some compared with a survey immediately after their convention. Recent surveys of Pennsylvania – a state Trump has said he can win – have shown Clinton ahead by up to 9 points.
Others pumped up the crowd by evoking Trump’s stances against ISIS, illegal immigration and Clinton. Trump’s rating among registered voters did take a hit, from a 39% favorable and 59% unfavorable reading before either convention to a 35% favorable to 61% unfavorable read now. Trump has ceded his advantage with independents and his favorability rating dwells at a terrible 31 percent. “So at some point, at some point we’re just gonna keep barrelling through”, he said.
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As per another poll conducted by CBS News, Clinton leads Trump by seven points.
