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Trump Beats Clinton Among Least-Educated Whites in Bloomberg Poll
Donald Trump is decisively winning white voters who don’t have more than a high-school education, but his stubborn unpopularity with minorities has given Hillary Clinton a narrow overall lead with America’s least-educated voters.
Those findings from the latest Purple Slice online poll for Bloomberg Politics highlight two of the biggest demographic fault lines in this year’s presidential race: educational attainment and race.
Read More >>Reports: Team Trump raised $90 million in August
Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump and his joint fundraising committees raised a substantial $90 million last month, according to numbers first reported Wednesday by Fox News.
The haul is an improvement from the $80 million that Trump and the Republican National Committee reported collecting in July and marks the campaign’s best fundraising month of the election.
Read More >>Gary Johnson begins first TV push with debates looming
Gary Johnson, struggling to move his poll numbers high enough to earn a spot in the presidential debates, is beginning his first television advertising of the 2016 campaign.
Will Trump or Clinton win? The 11 states deciding the race
The final sprint toward Election Day has begun, and Donald Trump is reeling in Hillary Clinton’s lead.
A new CNN/ORC poll on Tuesday morning showed Trump leading by 2 points nationally, sending shockwaves through Democratic ranks. Clinton’s advantage in the RealClearPolitics polling average was down to 3.3 points, less than half of what it was at its peak.
Read More >>How Hillary Clinton could win
Hillary Clinton has advantages heading into the final stretch of the campaign that any presidential candidate would envy: a fleet of popular surrogates, a mountain of cash and an opponent who is often sidetracked by self-inflicted wounds.
Trump making a play for Virginia, despite long odds
Donald Trump will spend more money this week in Virginia than anywhere else. Of the $3.5 million in advertising time he’s booked, $1.9 million will go into the commonwealth. More specifically, $1.4 million will be spent in the D.C. market.
Read More >>The Problem With Presidential Polling
If you use public polling as your guide star for the presidential election, the readings announced Tuesday would make your head spin. First, CNN released a survey showing Donald Trump pulling into the lead by 2 points over Hillary Clinton among likely voters, one of the few times a national poll has found the Republican ahead in months. But wait: The Washington Post commissioned a landmark poll from the online pollster SurveyMonkey showing Clinton with a commanding electoral-vote lead, ahead in solidly Republican Texas, and within striking distance in Mississippi.
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