Clinton’s voters listed the economy first (19 percent), followed by Supreme Court nominations (18 percent) and health care (11 percent). But it still is slightly higher than the 6-point advantage President Barack Obama had over former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney – a native of metro Detroit – at this point in MI four years ago. The remaining 5 percent said they would vote for someone else for president and vice president.
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It also it reignited persistent worries among Democrats that electing the former first lady will restart a cycle of scandal and investigation that could rival the final portion of her husband’s term in office.
That uncertainty could allow Trump’s supporters to argue that MI is still up for grabs.
“For example, on October 24, the communications director for the Ohio Republican Party reported that Trump campaign staffers ‘moved into Ohio GOP headquarters last week to help recruit and certify hundreds of Republican observers, ‘ and that the chair of the Ohio Republican Party ‘met with Attorneys for Trump, who will be mobilized for Election Day, ‘” the suit says.
It’s unclear how many people are under consideration or whether Clinton herself has asked for Biden to be vetted for a job she once held.
That sample included 965 likely women voters and 776 likely white women voters.
For Trump, this adds up to trouble for a candidate trailing or neck-and-neck in the swing states he needs to win in order to capture the White House, such as Ohio, Florida, New Hampshire, North Carolina and Pennsylvania. Don Trump Jr and Ivanka Trump, who contributed to the campaign of Hillary Clinton in 2007, hadn’t made any donations at all so far, evidently. Clinton could effectively stop Trump in his tracks if she can win either state – barring a huge and unpredictable upset elsewhere.
“When you have 300 million Americans, you’re bound to come across a fictitious name or Social Security number, but that doesn’t skew the overall outcome”, said John Neison, 40, of Bucks County, a registered Libertarian who plans to vote for either Johnson or write in a Republican other than Trump for president.
Trump has claimed the vote nationwide may be soiled by widespread voter fraud, but has not provided evidence to back up that claim.
The suit against the Republican National Committee was filed Wednesday in U.S. District Court in New Jersey.
Since he has likely alienated minority and educated women with his rhetoric and behavior, Trump must pull in vast numbers of new white voters — some who may have voted for Democrats in the past – to make up for the shortfall.
Virginia’s Bennett sees Trump creating a “lose-lose” situation for her opponent. But considering Trump’s much smaller lead among men, that continuing advantage could be decisive.
The Republican presidential nominee has given a mere $33,000 to his campaign this month. Both are now focused on getting supporters out to the polls.
Furthermore, only a few battleground states publish voting data by party ahead of time.
Although Michelle Obama was critical of Clinton during the hard-fought 2008 Democratic nominating race, any trace of bitterness appeared long behind them.
Following her rally with Mrs. Obama, Clinton greeted students at an early voting site at University of North Carolina-Greensboro. She maintains a staff of more than 800 – several times as large as Trump’s – and has spent more on advertising than the Republican has in every week of the race. The Clinton campaign said her policy would provide funding to states that develop comprehensive anti-bullying efforts.
But if Clinton is going to pull off the upset here, she’ll need strong turnout from African Americans – and there are signs that their share of the vote has dropped a bit from where it was at this point in 2012.
Since September, Clinton seems to have consolidated her support within her own party and drawn undecided voters such as Miller to her campaign, or at least pushed them away from Trump. Regarding Trump’s comments in the 2005 Access Hollywood video about women letting him kiss and grab them because he’s “a star”, only 4 percent said it caused them to revoke their support, while 35 percent said they were still supporting Trump. A whopping 32% said they were undecided.
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Hillary Clinton is heading into the final stretch of the 2016 race for the White House with a $85 million advantage over Republican Donald Trump, according to new candidate filings with the Federal Election Commission. And news of rising Obamacare premiums gave him an opening to criticize President Barack Obama’s legacy that Clinton is running to inherit. Bernie Sanders of Vermont.
