Embracing Lincoln, Clinton to urge nation to fix divisions

Trump also reversed another lead Clinton had in Pennsylvania. Clinton led among likely voters 45 percent to 41 percent for Trump.

Likely voters in the poll have Clinton’s lead shrinking against Trump head to head. In the swing state of Ohio, Trump and Clinton are tied with 41 percent of support each. Trump was behind Clinton in Pennsylvania in the June Quinnipiac poll, with 41 percent to Clinton’s 42 percent. In Florida, 1,015 voters were surveyed and the poll has a margin of error of 3.1 percentage points.

Poll director, Charles Franklin, said that “there’s good evidence here” that we’re looking at a tighter race for president in Wisconsin.

Clinton pointed to Trump’s proposed policy to ban Muslim immigrants, his use of an anti-Semitic meme created by neo-Nazis and his attack on a judge of Mexican descent as reasons why he would further divide the country.

Clinton aides hoped that Wednesday’s remarks in Springfield would build off a speech Clinton gave last week to the largely African-American audience at the African Methodist Episcopal Church in Philadelphia, where Clinton said it was important to acknowledge “implicit bias” that still exists today in the United States.

In Ohio, Clinton and Trump are tied.

Bennet leads Glenn by 48 percent to 35 percent, while Libertarian Lily Tang Williams and Green Party candidate Arn Menconi have support in the low single digits. The endorsement she received yesterday from her erstwhile primary rival, Vermont Sen. But with the GOP convention slated to begin next Monday, Clinton may have to wait for the Democrats’ own convention the following week to really find the breathing room to reassert herself.

Both Trump and Clinton received negative favorability marks overall – 60 percent of those polled viewed Clinton unfavorably, while 59 percent viewed Trump as such.

Some other polls out this week show the race remains close nationally and in several battleground states.

The Democratic presidential candidate picked the symbolic location where Lincoln delivered his famous address about the perils of slavery in June 1858 to the state Republican convention.

More than half said Clinton was better prepared to be president and more intelligent.

And in the same four-way matchup, an Economist/YouGov survey released Wednesday found Clinton up by three points, 40 to 37 percent, with five percent going to Johnson and two percent going to Stein.