Back us so we can block Clinton agenda, say some Republicans

As the two most unpopular presidential candidates prepare for their first face-off, Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump are haunted by ghosts of their own making. They are about how much money she is raising in places like the Hamptons. Her campaign is trying to keep open as many paths as possible through those states to reach the decisive 270 electoral votes needed to win. Clinton also has multiple paths to the 270 electoral votes needed to win in November – so many that she could lose OH and Florida and still become America’s first female president.

Trump, of course, could also benefit from some unforeseen development – a medical scare for Clinton, perhaps, or some new hint of scandal that pushes Clinton voters toward Trump or causes them to stay home on Election Day. While Trump squandered a summer’s worth of opportunities to court those voters, his campaign heads into the fall suddenly confident in its ability to make up lost ground.

Clinton, in contrast, has been hit by damaging revelations in newly released emails about the unseemly relationship between the Clinton Foundation and the State Department during her tenure as secretary of state. His campaign plans to come out of the Labor Day weekend wielding the report as a warning about the Democrat’s judgment.

At a campaign rally on Thursday in Wilmington, Ohio, Trump said his immigration plan would treat everyone with “dignity, respect and compassion” but prioritize compassion for American citizens and include some kind of ideological screening. “I’m not sure that Hillary Clinton is particularly concerned about what Matt Drudge’s audience thinks”. “He’s got to sustain this for another couple weeks”.

Trump also needs to improve his standing among independent voters, which Romney won by 5 points in 2012. Efforts to highlight a warmer side of the NY real estate developer at the GOP convention were quickly overshadowed by flaps of his own making.

“He’s running up against a population trend and a demographic reality”, said Steve Schale, a Florida-based Democratic strategist.

Jackson says these are questions “African-Americans need to know”, and that Trump “hasn’t sat down with anyone” in the black community. Bernie Sanders, the victor of the state party’s presidential preference caucus vote in March.

Paras Shah, an Ohio State University economics major from Worthington who interned for Republican Rob Portman, said he will likely vote for Clinton because he doesn’t trust Trump with the economy or foreign relations.

Andrew Rockway, program director for the non-partisan Jefferson Center in Akron, which has done extensive interviewing with voters, said there is a high level of frustration this year- about the tone of the campaign, about the perceived lack of reliable information and specifics from the candidates, about the way the election is being covered by the media and about the candidates themselves.

Expectations for the presidential debates are far lower for Trump than they are for Clinton, thanks in part to his relative political inexperience.

Privately, Republican leaders say it will take more than strong debates for their nominee to alter a race that appears to be leaning in Clinton’s favor.

Among young people overall, 47 percent say they think Trump would better handle securing the border, 26 percent say Clinton would, and 18 percent say neither would.

Trump advisers vigorously dispute that the race has slipped from their grasp.

If the solutions are all too obvious to most Americans, they represent a bridge to a treacherous new world order to many Trump supporters.

That’s little changed from a week earlier, when theRepublican candidate was behind the democratic rival by threepoints, it said. But she crushes him among that demographic overall because, one can only assume, the number of young voters who are voting mainly against Trump is enormous.

“There’s no question you’ve got two candidates who are both underwater on their favorables right now”, Joel Benenson, Clinton’s chief strategist and pollster, said by way of explaining the appeal of Johnson and Stein. It is ironic, in fact, that Trump has taken out after Colin Kaepernick, saying the 49ers quarterback should find another country if he doesn’t want to stand for the national anthem when it is Trump who’s said that America is “going to hell”.

She will have plenty of help: Obama and Vice-President Joe Biden are hitting the road on her behalf and she can also rely on her husband, former President Bill Clinton. Bernie Sanders of Vermont during the Democratic primaries, said Trump has a point about the Democratic Party and black voters.