Hillary soars to 12-point lead over Trump
Clinton plays unity card as both candidates try to woo voters in key swing states
washington — Hillary Clinton has soared to a 12-point lead over Donald Trump in the race for the White House, according to a new poll released on Sunday, with the real estate magnate’s support tanking among key voter groups.
The Republican presidential nominee has seen dismal poll numbers since a string of women came forward earlier this month to accuse him of sexual assault or inappropriate behaviour in the past.
He has also stirred controversy by refusing to say that he will accept the result of the November 8 election no matter what, calling the process “rigged.”
Clinton, the Democratic former secretary of state, leads 50 per cent to 38 per cent in a four-way contest with two minor party candidates, according to a national ABC News poll.
It was up from Clinton’s four percentage point edge in an ABC News/Washington Post poll conducted 10 days ago. Trump held a small 47-43 per cent lead among white Americans, a group that Republican Mitt Romney won by 20 points in the 2012 election.
Republican candidates must have strong support from white voters if they want to win, with
The fact is that this race is not over... He’s not — we’re not giving up. We know we can win this Kellyanne Conway Trump’s campaign manager
non-white voters overwhelmingly favoring Democratic candidates.
Clinton leads 55-35 per cent among women, and has doubled her lead to 32 points among college-educated white women — a group strongly critical of Trump’s response to allegations of inappropriate behaviour. The poll even showed Clinton leading for the first time among men, 44 to 41 per cent — although that lead is within the poll’s margin of error.
With just over two weeks to go before Election Day, the two White House hopefuls are targeting key battleground states like Florida, North Carolina, Ohio and Pennsylvania.
Team Clinton is hoping for a landslide win, even holding out hope of taking back control of at least one of the two houses of Congress from the Republicans. —
We believe that we’ll do this by working with all of you” Hillary Clinton Democratic presidential nominee
philadelphia — Donald Trump on Saturday looked to reset his flailing campaign in the Civil War battlefield town of Gettysburg, while Hillary Clinton told voters she alone could unite a divided nation.
With 17 days to go before Election Day, the Republican billionaire and his Democratic rival barnstormed Pennsylvania and Ohio — two key swing states that could determine the result on November 8.
Both are part of America’s socalled “Rust Belt” — an area once dotted with steel mills that is now suffering from higher unemployment, with the nation’s industrial boom a thing of the past.
Trump’s team promised he would deliver his “closing arguments” in the race for the White House, delivering a major policy speech in Gettysburg — where Abraham Lincoln delivered his key Civil War speech to try to unite the nation.
The 70-year-old Manhattan real estate mogul indeed expanded on some of his plans for the first 100 days of his presidency in his 45-minute “Gettysburg address”, vowing to create 25 million jobs over a decade and cut middle-class taxes.
“Change has to come from outside our very broken system,” Trump told a room of several hundred supporters, hitting on many of his usual stump speech themes.
He called for tougher curbs on illegal immigration, Congressional term limits, a renegotiation of the North American Free Trade Agreement — and a repeal of President Barack Obama’s signature health care reform.
“Hillary Clinton is not running against me, she’s running against change,” he said.
He also revisited his claims of vote “rigging” — comments that have outraged even fellow Republicans and drawn scorn from President Barack Obama for breaking with political decorum — and blamed the media for his dip in the polls.
He invoked the legacy of Lincoln, saying the nation should look to heal sharp divides. He even repeatedly used the words of the late president to champion government “of the people, by the people, for the people”.
But the dark vision of an America on its knees that he offered was far from the optimism embraced by the 16th president in his historic Gettysburg Address.
Invigorated by both her commanding poll numbers and Trump’s eyebrow-raising declarations, the candidate vying to become America’s first female president campaigned in Pennsylvania on Saturday along with running mate Tim Kaine.
“Unlike our opponent, we do not believe we can do this alone,” she told supporters at a rally in Pittsburgh with Kaine at her side. “We believe that we’ll do this by working with all of you.” “A lot of Republicans have had the grit and the guts to stand up and say ‘He does not represent me,’” she said. “Anger is not a plan.”
“I understand that they need a president who cares about them, will listen to them and I want to be their president.”
Clinton, the 68-year-old former secretary of state, is leading in the national polls by an average of more than 5.3 percentage points in a two- or four-way contest, according to RealClearPolitics.
She is ahead in 10 of the 13 battleground states, notably Florida, Pennsylvania, Michigan and North Carolina.
Donald Trump has seen his campaign spiral downward in recent weeks after a number of women made allegations that he sexually assaulted them. —
Hillary Clinton is not running against me, she’s running against change” Donald Trump Republican presidential nominee