Clinton using Republican convention to spur voter signup

A majority – 63 percent – of Latinos describe themselves as “pessimistic and worried” about Trump’s ability to serve as president, while an additional 20 percent say they are “uncertain and wondering” about his capacity to do the job.

The Los Angeles Times tracking poll, which began on July 4 and will be updated daily throughout the election, surveys 400 people every day out of roughly 3000 US citizens who were randomly recruited to be part of the study.

Finally, on Sunday, NBC/Wall Street Journal/Marist, ABC News/The Washington Post and CNN/ORC all released new nationwide polls pitting Clinton against Trump. In the 11-state survey, 54% express dissatisfaction with the Justice Department’s handling of the Clinton emails issue.

Mrs. Clinton’s biggest drawback remains questions about her honesty: Fully 72 percent said she is too willing to bend the rules, a week after FBI Director James Comey blasted her carelessness in using an unsecured server for State Department emails but declined to charge her.

The reasons for Clinton’s slump were not entirely clear, but could be related to the racial unrest following the Dallas sniper slayings of five police officers, which may benefit the self-proclaimed “law and order” campaign of Donald Trump. Rob Portman, another incumbent Republican, leads former Ohio Governor Ted Strickland by only one point, 41% to 40%.

Results for the sample of registered voters have a margin of error of 3.5 percentage points.

The effort is reminiscent of a strategy employed by President Obama in 2008 that helped build his successful coalition, which included a larger turnout of minority and young voters than in previous cycles.

Additionally, 61 percent of voters across these three states gave Trump a thumbs up for picking Indiana Gov. Mike Pence for his running mate.

Today’s new NBC News poll, released this morning, shows that Trump has more work to do.

In that poll, Libertarian party candidate Gary Johnson picked up 13% of support in a matchup against Clinton, Trump, and Green Party candidate Jill Stein, slightly higher than in the NBC/WSJ poll and the WaPo/ABC poll.

And while Clinton in June held a 22-percent lead among college-educated white women, pollsters found that demographic is evenly split between the two candidates. He is just as likely to make voters less likely to vote for Trump (16%) as to make them more likely to do so (17%), while 62% say their vote is unchanged. I think he relied on her. As Bernie Sanders said, ‘Her judgment is so bad.’ She’s got bad judgment.

In a two-way matchup, Clinton tops Trump 49% to 42%.

The campaign of the presumptive Republican nominee, Donald Trump, is sparking a surge in the number of citizenship applications and voter registrations among Hispanics fearful of his immigration policies.