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For a generation, being Texan has been as much about a love for the Alamo and barbecue as for picking Republican presidents. Now, with Donald Trump as the party’s nominee, there are signs that the grip on the Lone Star State may be weakening.

Trump arrives in Austin Tuesday for a rally after a poll released last week by left-leaning Public Policy Polling shows him ahead of Democrat Hillary Clinton by 6 percentage points, one of the slimmest margins in recent Texas history.

Ratings Change: 7 States Shift Toward Clinton in Electoral College

Donald Trump appears to be drowning in the wake of the conventions.

The GOP presidential nominee was in a precarious electoral position even before the conventions because of his high unfavorable ratings and penchant for controversial remarks. The four days in Cleveland were supposed to unite the GOP but appear to have done the opposite, as Trump has lost ground to Hillary Clinton in national and swing-state polls.

Poll: Half of all voters won’t consider Trump

Half of all voters say they definitely won’t consider voting for Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump, according to a new Morning Consult poll.

The poll also found that 45 percent of voters said they definitely wouldn’t consider voting for Clinton.

Hillary Clinton’s campaign is ramping up its presence on the airwaves.

According to an aide, the campaign has reserved $80 million worth of TV ad space in battleground states to take them through the fall campaign.

Hillary Clinton moved into a clear polling lead over Donald Trump just after the Democratic convention, which ended on July 28. Pretty much ever since, the reporters and poll watchers that I follow have seemed eager to tell the next twist in the story. Would Trump’s numbers get even worse, possibly leading to the first double-digit victory for a Democratic presidential candidate since 1964? Or would Trump mount a comeback? As of last Tuesday, there wasn’t much evidence of an overall shift in the race. Trump was gaining ground in some polls but losing ground in a roughly equal number of them.

Why Clinton is trouncing Trump in Michigan

A Republican presidential candidate hasn’t won Michigan since 1988, but Donald Trump promised he was a different kind of Republican — the winning kind.

Trump was right about being different. He was wrong about winning.

Former Romney finance chairman endorses Clinton

Declaring that Donald Trump “speaks positively about foreign dictators and acts like one himself,” one of Mitt Romney’s original finance committee chairmen endorsed Hillary Clinton for the presidency on Friday.