Donald Trump on Monday intensified his attacks on Hillary Clinton by tying the Democratic nominee to allegations of sexual misconduct against her husband, ratcheting up a line of attack he pushed during the previous night’s debate.
The second presidential debate came on the heels of what may have been the most tumultuous week of the Republican nominee’s campaign. In fact, he went a step ahead and further blamed Hillary that he didn’t pay his taxes because of a loophole that she failed to get rid of as a senator.
Nearly all of the news publication’s voters have been responsive since the Trump tape came out. As always, one poll could be an outlier.
The poll of 500 registered voters was conducted October 8-9 and has a margin of error of 4.4 percent for all registered voters and 4.6 percent for likely voters. But with all of those asterisks applied, the results of the poll are dramatic.
Still, the debate was a closer affair than their first meeting, in which a CNN poll showed 62% of viewers declared Mrs Clinton the victor over 27% for Trump – the third widest margin ever in a CNN or Gallup post-debate poll dating back to 1984. In a one-on-one race, she leads by 14.
The UPI/CVoter online tracking poll surveys about 200 people each day, leading to a sample size of roughly 1,400 people during any seven-day span.
It’s clear that part of Trump’s problem stems directly from the tape. Now, 45% of likely voters choose Clinton and 37% choose Trump, with another 18% declining to support either.
Some 61 per cent of those polled said that “lots of men” occasionally engage in similar conversations, and 46 per cent, a plurality, said it was unfair to judge someone on conversations “that they did not intend for anyone else to hear”.
The debate was crammed with moments that could at best be described as petty and at worse vicious – as the candidates traded personal attacks and sarcastic one-liners. Now, the advantage is seven points.
The poll, conducted on October 8-10, follows another NBC/Wall Street Journal poll taken after the leak of a 2005 video that shows Trump joking about groping women without their consent. In 2012, there was no lead this big in the last few months.
FiveThirtyEight gives Clinton a 76.1% chance of winning the state on November 8. That’s before the tape.
Why? In a special report Tuesday, CBS News blamed an implosion by Donald Trump.
