With voters sharply divided by gender, race and age, Democrat Hillary Clinton and Republican Donald Trump are virtually tied in Florida as the focus of this year’s presidential race shifts from the primaries to the November general election, a new poll shows.
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“They’re both out of touch with people’s everyday reality”, the 64-year-old Republican says, dismissing Clinton’s talk of “breaking down barriers” and Trump’s “make America great again” motto. The democratic frontrunner, who is now well ahead of her rival Bernie Sanders, is just 155 delegates away from securing her party’s nomination.
Majorities of voters in both primaries say trade with other countries mostly takes jobs from American workers.
Days after Trump’s remaining Republican competitors exited the race, the former secretary of state continues to battle for her party’s nomination against the Vermont senator, who has taken several positions to her left on economic issues.
“The thing that matters most are the millions of people that have come out to vote for me and give me a landslide victory in nearly every state”, Trump said moments after Ryan announced their planned meeting.
“She’s been going around pretending that she’s a minority”, said Trump, who alleged that Warren had made the claim “because she felt that her mother had high cheek bones”. Their names appear on the ballot, along with the presidential candidate they support.Republican voters are also going to the polls in Nebraska on Tuesday. “They’re making me feel that they are not the kind of people I want to be associated with”.
“What I want you to do is save your vote-you know, you don’t have to vote anymore”. An additional 2 in 10 said they wouldn’t vote for either candidate.
In Pennsylvania, Mr. Trump had a 39 percent/55 percent favorable/unfavorable split, and Mrs. Clinton had a 37 percent/58 percent favorable/unfavorable split.
Sanders’ authenticity and stance on college debt were among the primary reasons they supported him.
“With all the politicians and everybody that’s running, to be honest, I don’t believe with everything that they all say”, Blackmon said. Even if she loses in West Virginia, the proportional allocation of delegates in the primary means her lead over Sanders will stay mostly intact.
“Hillary was an enabler and she treated these women horribly”.
“Whether you vote for me or not”, she said, “I will be your partner, and I will not for one minute give up on Appalachia”.
But Clinton still has a solid lead in the delegate race, unofficially with 2,233 to 1,461 for Sanders.
For Clinton, winning California’s primary is crucial to present herself as a strong candidate backed by a united party, said Thad Kousser, a professor of politics at UC San Diego. Elizabeth Warren. The Massachusetts Democrat, he said, is a “goofus” and a “basket case” who has done nothing in the Senate.
The outcome in West Virginia, where only 29 delegates are at stake and opinion polls show Sanders with a slight lead, is unlikely to alter the course of the Democratic race.
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Despite an uphill battle to become his party’s presidential standard-bearer, Sanders has vowed to take his campaign all the way to the Democrats’ July 25-28 nominating convention in Philadelphia, and wants a say in shaping the party’s platform. She peppers her remarks with anecdotes of people she meets campaigning.
