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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 >>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.
A new 50-state poll shows exactly why Clinton holds the advantage over Trump
With nine weeks until Election Day, Donald Trump is within striking distance in the Upper Midwest, but Hillary Clinton’s strength in many battlegrounds and some traditional Republican strongholds gives her a big electoral college advantage, according to a 50-state Washington Post-SurveyMonkey poll.
The survey of all 50 states is the largest sample ever undertaken by The Post, which joined with SurveyMonkey and its online polling resources to produce the results. The state-by-state numbers are based on responses from more than 74,000 registered voters during the period of Aug. 9 to Sept. 1.
Read More >>Clinton, Trump Zero In on Battleground States That Will Decide Election
With the start of the intensified, two-month sprint to Election Day, Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump expanded their availability to the news media as they zeroed in on the states and groups of voters they need to claim victory on Nov. 8.
The two candidates crossed paths at Cleveland’s Hopkins International Airport at the start of the day Monday, illustrating the narrow focus of both campaigns on Ohio and about seven other battleground states that will decide the election.
Read More >>Labor Day Reset: Down the Stretch With Clinton and Trump
As recently as a generation ago, presidential general elections were thought to begin on Labor Day. That was back when August was a political dead zone, of course, with most Americans on news-free (and pre-cable) vacations, the tiny media elites all on retreat in the Hamptons or Martha’s Vineyard, and the campaigns and their auxiliaries marshaling their resources for the homestretch.
Read More >>Poll: Nine weeks out, a near even race
Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton start the race to November 8 on essentially even ground, with Trump edging Clinton by a scant two points among likely voters, and the contest sparking sharp divisions along demographic lines in a new CNN/ORC Poll.
Clinton Holds Steady Against Trump as Campaign Enters Final Weeks: Poll
Hillary Clinton’s national lead over Donald Trump remains steady at 6 points, according to the latest NBC News|SurveyMonkey Weekly Election Tracking Poll.
Clinton currently enjoys 48 percent support while Trump maintains 42 percent — the same margin as last week. The latest NBC News|SurveyMonkey poll was conducted online from August 29 through September 4 among registered voters.
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