But Clinton’s speech served to turn another page in a new, more aggressive chapter in her campaign, challenging Republican attacks on her national security experience. He puts her chances of winning the nomination at an unchanged 85 percent. Ted Cruz (Texas), former Gov. Mike Huckabee (Ark.) and Gov. Scott Walker (Wis.) also lead Clinton by 3 percent or less head to head. “I think her bigger problem is going to be the criminal probe”, Trump said in an interview with CNN’s Chris Cuomo.
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In March, her favourability rating was 53-44. Sanders is already enduring left-on-left clashes with Black Lives Matter activists, the hapless Martin OMalley is associated with Baltimore policing, and given the front-runners pre-commitment to a voting rights push and criminal justice reform, its not clear what Biden would offer minority voters to make them reconsider their strong support for Clinton. Years later, when Hillary Clinton was preparing to enter the Senate, one of her first stops was Biden’s office.
But the fading numbers haven’t hurt her against some GOP contenders. In July, she led him 56-40%. Meanwhile, Clinton now leads Jeb Bush by nine points (52-43% – up from five points in July). It’s past time, as a matter of fact, for a woman president.
Now as Biden considers challenging Clinton for the 2016 Democratic presidential nomination, their long and tangled relationship is being tested. Most recently at Saturday’s Iowa State Fair visit, Sanders knocked the Republican presidential candidate, who is self-funding his entire White House bid, for his blatant displays of wealth.
Overall, 47% of Democratic and Democratic-leaning voters say they support Clinton for the party’s nomination.
At the same time, Vermont Sen.
Liberal US Senator Bernie Sanders is second with 29% – a surge of 10 points since July.
On social issues like abortion and same-sex marriage, Sanders has been reliably progressive (though on another divisive social issue, gun control, his record has been more mixed.) And on foreign policy, he’s tended to be dovish, generally backing diplomatic action over the use of military force.
Though Bernie Sanders’ insurgent candidacy is drawing large crowds and gaining on Clinton in the polls, the Clinton camp still believes that, barring an unforeseen cataclysm, they can hold him off. Biden represents a different kind of threat.
Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Biden of course has not shown any real interest in running. The political neophyte has dominated media coverage since he launched his campaign in June, steadily narrowing the gap against Clinton, according to a CNN/ORC poll which has tracked such match-ups for months.
Fewer see Sanders as equivalent to Clinton, more say he’d do a worse job.
Mckesson has been critical of candidates in the race.
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These scandals, along with the continuing controversy about her role in the Benghazi cover-up and the questionable Clinton Foundation donations may be too overwhelming for Hillary to continue her campaign. On the economy, 45 percent say Clinton would best handle it, 26 percent choose Sanders and 21 percent Biden.
