Democrats appear to be outpacing their 2012 early vote performance in several critical swing states, giving Hillary Clinton a head start on Donald Trump in some of the most important presidential battlegrounds.
In two must-win states for Trump, North Carolina and Florida, Republicans are clinging to narrow leads in the total number of mail-in ballots requested. Yet in both states, Clinton is ahead of President Barack Obama’s pace four years earlier — and the GOP trails Mitt Romney’s clip.
Read More >>Hillary Clinton holds only a slim, three-point lead over Donald Trump in New Hampshire, according to a new poll out Friday that also shows close races for Senate and governor.
The MassINC Polling Group/WBUR-FM poll shows Clinton leading Trump, 41 percent to 38 percent — well within the poll’s margin of error of plus or minus 4.4 percentage points.
Read More >>Donald Trump cast himself in almost messianic terms Thursday in Florida, describing the presidential race as “a struggle for the survival of our nation” and vowing to win the White House despite all the “slings and arrows” being hurled in his direction.
It’s a sign of just how unconventional a year 2016 has been that Utah, traditionally a bastion of Republican support, is potentially competitive this November, as The Washington Post reports:
Clinton now sees heavily Republican Utah as winnable, her running mate says
Hillary Clinton’s campaign is making “a strong play” to win Utah, a state that Democrats have not carried since 1964, her running mate, Tim Kaine, said Thursday…
Trump and Clinton were knotted at 26 percent in Utah, with independent candidate Evan ... Read More >>
Hillary Clinton’s campaign is making “a strong play” to win Utah, a state that Democrats have not carried since 1964, her running mate, Tim Kaine, said Thursday.
Kaine, the party’s vice-presidential nominee, spoke to a Salt Lake City television station remotely from New York, relaying that the Clinton campaign will step up its focus on the state, where it sees an opportunity against a weakened Donald Trump.
Read More >>Hillary Clinton leads Donald Trump by four points in North Carolina, while Trump is ahead by one in Ohio, according to two new NBC News/Wall Street Journal/Marist polls of these states.
In North Carolina, Clinton gets support from 45 percent of likely voters, Trump gets 41 percent, and Libertarian Gary Johnson gets 9 percent. (The Green Party’s Jill Stein didn’t qualify to make the ballot in the state.)
Donald Trump took a defiant stance on the campaign trail Thursday, angrily denying the latest allegations of sexual misconduct amid fresh poll results that indicate his already narrow path to the White House is constricting.
The Republican nominee trailed Democrat Hillary Clinton by 4 percentage points in North Carolina, and was ahead by 1 point in Ohio, according to Wall Street Journal/NBC News/Marist polls released Thursday.
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