Trump, who has struggled to earn the support of minority voters, bemoaned that “too many African-Americans have been left behind and unveiled a handful of new proposals aimed at revitalizing impoverished urban areas”. Trump trails Clinton by 13 points in a head-to-head contest, and 14 points when third-party candidates are included. As of last week, Clinton and her Democratic partners had $153 million in the bank, more than double the resources as on the Trump side. Four years earlier, Obama and Arizona Sen.
Trump campaign manager Kellyanne Conway, in several television interviews, said the event in Washington would not detract from the campaign’s efforts to rally voters before the November 8 election.
The Real Clear Politics average has Clinton up only 1.6 percentage points in a four-way race. But Bloomberg’s survey shows Trump doing somewhat better than Clinton with independents, who may hold the key to victory in a state that famously deadlocked in 2000.
It was the first campaign appearance featuring both Clinton and the first lady, whose passionate stump speeches have helped frame opposition to Republican nominee Donald Trump.
The Fox News Poll is based on landline and cellphone interviews with 1,309 randomly chosen registered voters nationwide and was conducted from October 22-25.
Accusing the media of being biased in favor of his opponent, Democrat Hillary Clinton, Trump said he is “winning in Florida, he’s winning in North Carolina, he’s winning in Iowa”.
Trump’s comment in the final presidential debate last week is galvanizing Hillary supporters- Democratic women are taking the insult and turning it into a badge of honor. Sixty-two percent see Clinton as well-qualified to be president, compared to 53 percent for Obama in 2008.
If the vice presidential nominees were atop the ticket, the poll shows a almost tied race.
Among Trump’s supporters, 49 percent in the latest poll said they believed Trump would win, down from 67 percent who felt that way at the beginning of the month. Eighty-one percent of Republican voters have a favorable view of Pence, while just 68 percent say the same of Trump.
The AP-GfK Poll of 1,546 adults, including 1,212 likely voters, was conducted online October 20-24, using a sample drawn from GfK’s probability-based KnowledgePanel, which is created to be representative of the USA population.