Clinton campaign raced through $50 million last month
Libertarian nominee Gary Johnson now has nine percent support, while the Green Party’s Jill Stein has three percent.
Clinton has spent heavily for TV advertising, which has come at a cost of $10 million per week, and polling, which cost her $1.3 million in August.
Purple Strategies, the company which carried out the poll on behalf of Bloomberg, said that Trump may still be able to win back those high-income voters. He said most New Yorkers say they’ll likely re-elect incumbent lawmakers.
Responding to the recent attacks in American cities, Trump pointed to failed immigration policies supported by Clinton and President Obama.
Voters broke almost evenly about which candidate would be better with economic issues and gave former Secretary of State Clinton the nod on handing foreign policy.
The latest Monmouth poll was conducted September 16-19 using phone interviews with 400 likely Florida voters. Results among registered voters have a margin of sampling error of 2.6 percentage points. FiveThirtyEight’s election forecast Wednesday gave Trump a 60.1 percent chance of winning the state.
According to the RealClearPolitics average of polls in New Hampshire, Clinton holds a 5-point lead over her Republican rival, 43.7 percent to 38.7 percent.
This “Republican drift” could make Pennsylvania this year’s “tipping point” – the state that delivers the all important 270th electoral college vote.
That in turn hampers Hillary Clinton’s ability to get voters thinking about positive things she has to offer, which means negative issues like her e-mails fester in their minds instead.
Female voters such as Ms. Tabbert, who doesn’t closely follow politics, say they are put off by the Clinton scandals – the secret email, Benghazi, the Clinton Foundation – but mostly they are resistant to the status quo in Washington that they think Mrs. Clinton represents.
Supporters also said they have concerns about their candidate: Sixty-two percent of Trump supporters said they have concerns including his character and personality and 50 percent of Clinton supporters said they have worries, including honesty and secrecy.