Hillary Clinton grabs 5-point lead as independents shift
Hillary Clinton leads in the key state of OH by four points (46 percent to 42 percent) and in Pennsylvania by a wider eight point gap (48 percent to 40 percent), a state that seems critical to Donald Trump’s electoral hopes.
Both polls were conducted before Friday’s bombshell 2005 audio of Trump talking about groping and kissing women.
Earlier this week, a Suffolk University poll of likely voters in the Granite State gave Clinton narrow lead of 44 percent to Trump’s 42 percent, the Boston Globe reports. Trump now has a lead over Clinton in Florida by 3 points, and in Nevada, where he currently leads by 2 points according to a Monmouth University poll.
They grudgingly accept that Hillary Clinton may be their next president, but that seems more about rejecting Donald Trump and a disappointment in third-party candidates.
When asked the same question, 64 percent of voters said they believed Hillary Clinton has the right temperament.
The survey, conducted entirely after the Friday leak of Trump’s boasts about behavior that fits the federal definition of sexual assault, showed Clinton trouncing Trump 52% to 38% in a head-to-head contest. A new national poll shows fallout from Trump’s falling numbers: 49 percent want Democrats in control of Congress, 42 percent say Republicans.
Interviews for the poll were continuing Monday and could signal whether Mr. Trump had rebounded after Sunday’s debate.
Not surprisingly, 84 percent of Republicans reported they didn’t feel that Trump should leave the race, although 12 percent of Republican voters said Trump needed to leave the race. The GOP has a much bigger battleground to worry about this election, states that are usually solid Republican territory, like Missouri and Georgia, are up for grabs this time around. While 45 percent said previously that Trump doesn’t respect women much or at all, now 55 percent say so.
Ninio Fetalvo, the RNC’s state communications director, said there RE more than 1,000 staff and trained organizers across the state, compared with just 84 in 2012. That three-point lead was within the poll’s margin of error. Among Independent likely voters, 31 percent said the tape makes them less likely to vote for Trump. In stark contrast, 64 percent of Democratic likely voters said he should drop out.
In the last few weeks of the 2008 campaign, the biggest margin of victory in recent presidential cycles, Barack Obama only had leads this big in a handful of polls, including an NBC-Journal one in the middle of October, where he led by 10.