Undecideds hold key to Don-Hill fight
Hillary Clinton still has the lead, a new poll shows — but the more than 20 percent who are undecided could swing the election either way. Clinton is regaining ground she lost to Donald Trump after the terror assault in Orlando, a Reuters/Ipsos poll released Saturday found. The poll of likely voters gives Clinton a 13.3 percentagepoint lead. Respondents split 46.6 percent for Clinton and 33.3 percent for Trump. But a hefty 20.1 percent say they would vote for neither major-party candidate. The survey was conducted between Monday and Friday. The current Real ClearPolitics polling average has Clinton up 5.9 percentage points over her likely GOP rival. Trump, while golfing Saturday at his new Trump International course in Aberdeen, Scotland, carried on a rolling press conference as he played, telling reporters that he was working on his list of vicepresidential candidates during the trip.
“It’s coming along good,” he said. “I have a lot of people that want it . . . I’m getting calls from a lot of people, and they want it.”
He downplayed the financial markets’ negative reaction to Thursday’s Brexit — saying, “There’s always turmoil no matter where you go, no matter what you do” — and put the onus on President Obama to cushion any blows to the US economy.
“This shouldn’t even affect [US markets], frankly, if it’s done properly, if we had proper leadership,” he said, blaming the stock market’s plunge Friday on worries about the Obama administration’s economic policies.
“Texas loves me,” he said when asked about the prospect of a “Texit” — the Texas breakaway movement being discussed by some conservatives. “Texas would never do that if I’m president.”
He also dismissed criticism from European leaders who have voiced opposition to his plans to restrict Muslim immigration to the US, calling their complaints “irrelevant.”