Dukakis lost the presidential election months later by almost eight points. Like Barry Goldwater and Walter Mondale before him, and Bob Dole and Al Gore afterward, the nominee riding a big summer wave crashed in the fall. They’ve also tended to be negated by back-to-back conventions canceling out advantages.
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Donald Trump turned a Tuesday morning speech to the Veterans of Foreign Wars into a political referendum on “crooked Hillary Clinton”, alleging his Democratic rival is “trying to sweep” the problems with the VA system “under the rug”. Women between the age of 45 and 54 still go for Clinton over Trump, 42 percent to 38 percent.
Trump told the more than 6,000 in Charlotte that Clinton has already shown “how she takes care of the veterans” during her tenure as secretary of state.
Another daily tracking survey running through and after the Republican convention, conducted by the Los Angeles Times and University of Southern California, shows Trump with a 4-point edge over Clinton July 18-24.
Before last week’s blockbuster GOP event, Clinton led him among that crucial group by 3 points. While 60% of Republican voters had a positive impression of the former presidential candidate before the convention, just 33% have one now.
In his acceptance speech, Trump said, “The most important difference between our plan and that of our opponents is that our plan will put America first”.
“I’m not interested in talking provocatively”, Clinton said. Trump has single-handedly converted our Party into one that is now pro-American worker. “I will pick up the phone, personally, and get it completed and get it taken care of – that’s a lot of work”.
Conventions, “are supposed to be uplifting”, Fowler says.
A better measure, he said, will come when both conventions are over.
Trump has independents to thank for much of his poll jump.
Trump’s gains came as he accepted his party’s nomination to the November 8 ballot at the four-day Republican National Convention in Cleveland last week, and as Clinton’s nomination in Philadelphia this week was marred by party divisions and the resignation of a top party official. She launched her presidential bid previous year highlighting the fact that she was a grandmother and that electing her would break the “highest glass ceiling” in American politics.
Despite the racist remarks attributed to Trump against Muslims, Mexicans and others, these statements have not made many in the Arab world angry or anxious yet. That while Trump expanded his lead with white voters who do not hold a college degree from a 51% to 31% lead before the convention to a 62% to 23% lead now.
The email’s subject line reads, “Trump 44, Clinton 39”, apparently referring to a new CNN/ORC poll that has Trump beating Clinton with 44 percent of the vote when third-part candidates Gary Johnson and Jill Stein are included. John McCain, noting that they worked together to raise funds for the Intrepid Fallen Heroes Fund at Brooke Army Medical Center in San Antonio, Texas.
Like voters in general, viewers congregated in familiar camps. MSNBC drew 3 million.
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As Clinton spoke, Democrats struggled with their own internal disputes after party chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz resigned under pressure following the release of hacked Democratic National Committee emails. Bernie Sanders once posed to Clinton. The Republican-turned-independent business mogul could boost Clinton’s appeal to independents and potentially deliver a powerful message to voters discouraged about the economy. CNN pointed out that there hadn’t been a post-convention bounce like that since 2000. So far, the parties are zero for two on that count.
