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Clinton camp debates media strategy vs. Trump
Hillary Clinton’s campaign is promising to be more “positive” in the homestretch for the White House to give voters a reason to support the Democrat and not just oppose Republican nominee Donald Trump.
One Clinton surrogate said the campaign understands that they need to continue to “give people a reason to vote for her.”
Read More >>Ohio, Long a Bellwether, Is Fading on the Electoral Map
After decades as one of America’s most reliable political bellwethers, an inevitable presidential battleground that closely mirrored the mood and makeup of the country, Ohio is suddenly fading in importance this year.
Hillary Clinton has not been to the state since Labor Day, and her aides said Thursday that she would not be back until next week, after a monthlong absence, effectively acknowledging how difficult they think it will be to defeat Donald J. Trump here.
Read More >>Clinton holds narrow leads in five battleground states
Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton leads Republican Donald Trump by single digits in five critical battleground states, according to post-debate polls for each battleground.
Clinton tops Trump in Colorado, Florida, North Carolina, Pennsylvania and Virginia in Public Policy Polling (PPP) surveys out Thursday.
Read More >>Clinton, Trump in dead heat in South Carolina
New polling released on Thursday showed Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump are locked in a tight race in South Carolina.
Trump led Clinton by 4 percentage points, 42-38, among likely voters in a Winthrop University survey. The poll had a 4.5 percentage point margin of error for the likely voter sample.
Read More >>Early Polls Suggest A Post-Debate Bounce For Clinton
Every scientific poll we’ve encountered so far suggests that voters thought Hillary Clinton beat Donald Trump in Monday night’s debate. In fact, some of them showed her winning by a wide margin — wide enough to make it a good bet (though not a guarantee) that she’ll gain in horse-race polls against Trump over the next week or so.
But so far, we’ve seen just two polls released that tested Clinton’s standing against Trump after the debate. They have pretty good news for Clinton, but I’d recommend some caution until we get more data.
Read More >>Hillary Clinton was clearly victorious, but only one candidate did enough to win new voters during the presidential debate
In a near unanimity, the media chorus immediately declared it: Hillary Clinton knocked it out of the park. It’s not a surprising assessment. And they aren’t wrong, but they also aren’t the audience that matters.
According to CNN’s David Gergen, anyway you looked at it, Clinton was the clear winner in the first of three presidential debates against Donald Trump. “By all traditional standards of debate, Mrs. Clinton crushed.”
Read More >>Why Clinton hasn’t put Trump away
My first impression, after watching the opening chapter of the Trump-Clinton debate trilogy Monday, was that really not much would change as a result. Trump had been his rude, sputtering, substance-free self; Clinton had proved herself again to be the diligent studier who pretends to be amused when you know she isn’t.
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