DES MOINES | Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton are running neck-and-neck in the presidential election race in Iowa, according to a new Monmouth University Poll published Tuesday.
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“It is absolutely imperative for the future of this country that Donald Trump not be elected president”, Sanders said, questioning the presumptive Republican nominee’s “temperament” to run the country. Republicans support Trump 82 percent to 6 percent. Chuck Grassley leads Democratic challenger Patty Judge, 52 percent to 42 percent, in the Monmouth Poll. The RealClearPolitics average in the three states Quinnipiac reported on Wednesday has also moved toward Trump.
Nevertheless, the poll indicates Trump has momentum as Republicans prepare to gather next week in Cleveland for the GOP national convention.
“I’m standing up for working families and the middle class in saying that Donald Trump would be a disaster for the future of this country”, Sanders said early Wednesday.
On whether he had discussed with Clinton the possibility of a position in her administration, Sanders said it was a topic they hadn’t broached.
On the drip-drip front, Hartig, Lapinski, and Psyllos observe “A strong majority of voters (82 percent) agreed that it was inappropriate for Clinton to use a personal email server during her tenure as secretary of state”. Forty-one percent (41%) of unaffiliated voters think Trump is more qualified, compared to 31% who feel that way about Clinton, but 28% of these voters are undecided.
-Most, 57 percent, think Clinton is more prepared to be president than Trump. The poll surveyed people 18 to 30 years old.
Results in all three states, however, were within the polls’ margin-of-error of 3.1 percentage points. Both groups overwhelmingly say she is not trustworthy. “The biggest margin is in Pennsylvania, where Clinton leads Trump in the non-white vote 72 percent to 12 percent”.
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Democrats convene for their convention the following week in Philadelphia, at which they are set to nominate Clinton. And I congratulate her for that. Among young Asians, 55 percent view Clinton at least somewhat favorably. The university surveyed 1,015 Florida voters with a margin of error of plus or minus 3.1 percent; 955 OH voters with a margin of error plus or minus 3.2 percent; and 982 Pennsylvania voters with a margin of error of plus or minus 3.1 percent. While Florida has historically leaned Republican, an increasingly diverse electorate might provide a boost to Democrats in November, particularly if Trump continues to alienate Hispanic voters.
