Trump’s latest foray into the black community not only sought to connect with voters in Cleveland, home to a large community of African-American voters key to Clinton’s prospects in OH, but also with moderate suburban voters, who frequently hear Clinton describe Trump as extreme.
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Meanwhile, Clinton campaign manager Robby Mook said the Democratic nominee plans to develop national standards for police meant to “prevent situations like this”.
And just 16 percent in the newest poll said that the news they have heard about Trump in recent weeks gave them a more favorable impression of him, while 62 percent said recent news has made their view of him less favorable.
Both Clinton and Trump have been preparing for the debate.
Economic issues are a relative bright spot for Trump. Trump hasn’t aired any Spanish ads in a state where the Census Bureau reports an estimated 1.6 million people speak English “less than very well”. On this measure Mrs Clinton’s lead has also narrowed, yet betting markets still anticipate her capturing a comfortable 320 of the 538 electoral-college votes.
“He’s a formidable, well-prepared candidate with a formidable, well-prepared team”, said Navarro, a professor at the University of California, Irvine.
When conservative radio host Hugh Hewitt asked Trump in June if he would be practicing for the debates, the GOP nominee expressed a worry that a candidate can actually prepare too much.
When Republican nominee for president Donald Trump started piling up the victories in the primaries, many of his critics warned that if he ended up on the November ballot he would get blown out and take out scores of Republicans running for the House and Senate with him.
The Republican has long lashed out at critics in deeply personal ways, especially after a perceived slight.
Voters seem to share Clinton’s concerns.
According to the AP-GfK poll, American voters say they trust Clinton more than Trump by large margins to handle health care, 42 percent to 29 percent, and race relations, 48 percent to 20 percent. Half say he’s at least somewhat racist.
Johnson said Trump has kicked off a conversation about African-American loyalty to the Democratic Party and predicted the presidential debates will make a big difference.
While she steered clear of Trump – with the exception of her campaign mantra, “Love trumps hate”, – the topic was an implicit poke at Trump’s much-publicized mocking of a disabled journalist during a rally a year ago.
“One advocate after another has told me the same thing: ‘We don’t want pity”. “Clearly his advisers agree that that is not a very presidential image”.
Voters are also slightly more likely to trust Trump than Clinton on handling gun laws, 39 percent to 35 percent.
Mizrahi says she has been trying to get the Trump campaign to respond to her group’s candidate questionnaire all year, even this week going to Trump Tower in NY to try to talk to someone. He spoke shortly after joining other supportive lawmakers for a meeting Thursday with Trump political director Jim Murphy. Trump said in Toledo, Ohio. Trump also offered no new ideas on reducing officer-involved shootings.
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The shootings come as Trump and Clinton confront unique challenges with African-American voters. In a two-way race with Trump, Clinton’s lead among registered voters has been very consistent in five Marquette polls since June, except for her post-convention August bounce: 7, 7, 10, 5 and 5 points. “And I think that’s probably going to work, as a matter of fact, that is going to work against him”.
