An independent daily tracking survey billed as nation’s most accurate shows Republican Donald Trump and Democrat Hillary Clinton knotted in a dead heat even as other polls show her leading the presidential race.
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A new poll by CNN/ORC shows that Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton leads Republican nominee Donald Trump by 5 percent in a 4-way race.
Yet Trump told screaming fans in Naples, Florida: “I’ll tell you what, we’re doing well in the polls”.
He then, without evidence, blamed that several “mainstream” media polls for weighing their respondents with Democrats.
Polling stations have opened in the largest U.S. battleground state of Florida, amid a tight race there between White House hopefuls Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton.
“And look, some people are sore losers, and we just got to keep going”, she added.
Yet any headway that Trump may have made was likely to be diluted by his legal threats against his accusers, just the latest example of Trump stepping on his intended message at inopportune moments.
“The tide of big government will no longer wash away our jobs and our freedoms”, Trump said to a large, boisterous crowd inside an amphitheater at the Florida State Fairgrounds.
Assuming he wins all of those – and he now trails in some – he would earn the exact number of electoral votes needed to win the presidency and no more.
The endorsements, which will come along with a variety of robocalls, social media, mail-outs, and photos of Obama with the candidates, represent the most involvement in down-ballot races by a president in memory.
Trump’s son and campaign surrogate, Eric Trump, sent an email request for donations from supporters Monday saying, “Early voting starts TODAY in some counties in Florida – the most important, must-win battleground state”. He and aides say they have brought new voters into their “movement”, enough to provide the margin of victory in states like Florida (and to confound the polls). The singer surprised students at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas when she knocked on the doors of their dorm rooms wearing a T-shirt that read “Nasty Woman”, a phrase Trump uttered at Wednesday’s debate in reference to Clinton. Clinton carries black, Hispanic, and Asian voters in North Carolina by 78%, while Trump trails at 16% support among non-white voters. He will spend all day Thursday in OH with other stops in the Midwest – Iowa and Wisconsin – the next day before a Western swing to Colorado and Nevada this weekend.
Obama was unsparing Sunday in criticizing Trump, describing him as unfit to be president.
“She has a former president, who happens to be her husband, campaigning for her”.
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So despite the loss of some endorsements and ongoing feuds with GOP leaders, the findings suggest that Trump voters – who have often said they did not pay much attention to the guidance of those party leaders – still feel Trump is closer to their positions than others who ran for the nomination this year.
