The latest on what likely voters think of Trump and Clinton

Clinton strengthened her position in the state by selecting Virginia Sen Tim Kaine as her running mate.

If Donald Trump doesn’t carry Pennsylvania, his chances of becoming president reach the vanishing point.

Analysts said Trump drastically needs to keep focused on the economy, as that is the issue that could win him the election – if it’s not too late to do so, given the constant controversy surrounding him. He believes Trump will run ahead of Romney by winning over blue-collar Democrats and union members “who like the fact that he’s not giving them the same spiel that politicians give to them every time” and “that he’s not politically correct”.

Despite Clinton’s post-convention bounce, several polls released this week reflect a tightening race once again.

Clinton bests Trump in Florida, another key state for his electoral map, by 44 percent to 39 percent.

NY billionaire Donald Trumpofficially accepted the presidential nomination of the U.S. Republican Party Thursday night on the final day of the Republican National Convention.

Meanwhile, other vital battleground states, including OH and Florida, remain close.

Despite Iowa likely voters splitting nearly evenly between Trump and Clinton, the perception among those Hawkeye State likely voters is that Clinton will prevail in November.

Clinton led Trump by more than 7 percentage points in a Reuters/Ipsos poll released on Tuesday, up from a less than 3-percentage-point lead late last week. For instance, if she won Florida and held onto the 19 mostly coastal states (and the District of Columbia) that Democrats have won for the past six presidential elections, she wouldn’t need to claim any others.

And in North Carolina, Clinton leads Trump 48%-39%.

In recent weeks, Clinton has built such an advantage over Trump that, as of Thursday, she could still win the presidency even if she lost every swing state where she led by less than three percentage points in the RealClearPolitics polling average.

Pollsters caution that national surveys so early in the general election, which technically starts after the parties’ nominating conventions, remain largely insignificant until after Labor Day and that their numbers will fluctuate until November. Yet the warning signs, overall, are still there: Just 34% of Iowa voters said Trump was honest and trustworthy, while 34% of the poll’s respondents said they were casting their vote for a candidate mostly because of their opposition to the alternative.