On Health Care Issues, Voters Pick Clinton Over Trump

Just hours before Donald Trump announced that pro-life Indiana Gov. Mike Pence will be his running mate, a brand new USC Dornsife/Los Angeles Times Daybreak tracking poll reveals that Trump has taken a slim 3 point lead over pro-abortion Hillary Clinton. Not too long ago, polls showed that Trump was ahead in Pennsylvania and Ohio. Both surveys found about one in five voters in Florida are undecided or don’t support either Trump or Clinton.

Despite this generally positive view of Democrats on health care, more voters have an unfavorable view of the Affordable Care Act (47 percent) than those who view President Obama’s signature health care law favorably (40 percent).

And in Virginia, Clinton’s advantage is nine points, 44 percent to 35 percent.

Earlier in the day, Clinton told the League of United Latin American Citizens that immigration reform hinges on her victory.

Clinton’s lead in Colorado decreased from other polls published by Fox and Monmouth University.

Some attribute Clinton’s slight dip to FBI Director James Comey’s criticism of her handling of classified information while serving as secretary of state, which the director characterized as “extremely careless”.

Republicans are also more likely than Democrats to say Clinton’s email use is a major problem, 85 percent to 22 percent. The Harvard Institute of Politics Poll was conducted online June 21-July 3 among 1,001 18-29 year olds, and has an error margin of plus or minus 3.5 percentage points.

A recent round of state polls in OH and Pennsylvania found Trump with roughly 0% support among black voters in the two states.

The next two weeks will shake up the polling to some extent, as both parties hold their conventions and name their vice-presidential picks (assuming that Trump at some point picks one).

“If she starts to fit the image of the political insider who thinks she can get away with things, there will be a lot of jokes around that”, he said to Inside Sources.

Recent polls show Clinton has lost ground to Trump. Considering the wealth of establishment candidates who ran against him, my only guess is the moderate Republican vote got split, clearing the way for the (gulp) alt-right to nominate their right-populist nightmare man.

Among minorities (blacks and Hispanics, in this survey), Clinton is favored by a strong majority over Trump, 63 percent to 2 percent among blacks and 46 percent to 5 percent among Hispanics.

Clinton reversed Trump’s lead in North Carolina, earning 44 percent to Trump’s 38 percent.