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From the point of view of the Hillary Clinton campaign, Republicans are ripe for picking. "Clinton's campaign is quietly broadening its outreach to potential Republican converts, including donors, elected officials, and business and foreign policy leaders," The Post reports .
Harvard's tenderfoot GOP elite on Thursday declared the candidate "a threat to the survival of the Republic," while asking party leaders and fellow college conservatives to "join us in condemning and withholding their endorsement from this dangerous man." The decision to publicly reject the candidate came earlier this week, Harvard Republican Club President Declan Garvey told CNN.
New polling from three states that are likely to be key to the outcome of the General Election in November, and which the Trump campaign itself has identified as part of a somewhat unconventional path to victory that relies upon winning states in the industrial Midwest that have traditionally gone for the Democratic candidate, seems to show the Trump campaign slipping behind Clinton and in real danger of being in Electoral College trouble before Labor Day. First up, there's a new WBUR poll out of New Hampshire that shows Hillary Clinton leading Trump by double digits: According to a new WBUR poll of New Hampshire voters, Hillary Clinton is enjoying a dramatic post-convention bump and now leads Donald Trump by 15 points.
Former New Mexico Governor Gary Johnson and his running mate, former Massachusetts Governor Bill Weld spoke Wednesday night at a CNN Town Hall. They say their ticket is an option for disillusioned voters who support neither Hillary Clinton nor Donald Trump.
"Post convention bumps show Hillary back in command of the election, but because of widespread voter dissatisfaction with the major parties, there's still some room for shakeups between now and November," says 'Third Candidates' co-creator John Farrell, adding "Green Party candidate Jill Stein has caught the eye of former Bernie supporters and Libertarian candidate Gary Johnson has been polling in double digits for months now and could make a push to be included in the debates".
Libertarian presidential nominee Gary Johnson and his running mate, Bill Weld, came out swinging Wednesday against their major party rivals: Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton. At a CNN town hall hosted by Anderson Cooper, Weld outright mocked Trump - saying he has "a screw loose" - while Johnson shed his typical reluctance to attack Clinton by questioning her integrity.
Hillary Clinton during a campaign event at Ernst Community Cultural Center at Northern Virginia Community College July 14, 2016 in Annandale, Virginia. Yesterday I gave my reasons for not voting for Trump .
Some of us are old enough to remember when Labor Day weekend traditionally marked the real start of the presidential campaign season, when everyday voters finally took a closer look at the nominees and their platforms. Now the end-of-summer holiday serves only to remind us that we're entering the final stretch of what has been a bewildering, frustrating and exhausting presidential campaign unlike any in U.S. history.
A supporter of former Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders and of Green Party candidate Jill Stein holds a sign at a rally at City Hall in Philadelphia on July 25 as the Democratic National Convention formally selects Hillary Clinton as the party's presidential nominee. Jill Stein's Green Party is aggressively courting Bernie Sanders supporters and others from the Democratic Party's far left.
CNN is set to host a primetime one-hour town hall with the Libertarian Party ticket, former Govs. Gary Johnson and William Weld, on Wednesday in New York City. The candidates will take questions from the audience and from CNN's Anderson Cooper, who will moderate the event, focusing on the current state of the 2016 race and the platform of the Libertarian Party.
There are only fragmentary polling results available as of Monday morning, and it's possible some immediate post-convention developments once "leaners" are factored in, and she leads by five if Libertarian Gary Johnson is included. Trump had edged ahead of Clinton in the last The internals of the new survey are unsurprising: Clinton's lead is mainly the product of better performance among independents and a consolidation of support among Democrats.
Reason TV covered the 2016 Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia from start to finish. While there, we documented anger with the DNC from Bernie Sanders supporters who felt betrayed by the party in the wake of an internal email leak that showed party officials discussing feeding negative stories about Sanders to the media.
Democrats are banking on a trust bounce for presidential nominee Hillary Clinton after last week's convention in Philadelphia, where a top priority was repairing a reputation for dishonesty and deception that party officials say she doesn't deserve. Deserved or not, the Clinton campaign and party officials are keenly aware that the trust deficit is one of her biggest vulnerabilities against Republican nominee Donald Trump, and they can't easily redefine someone who has been a national public figure for 25 years.
Gary Johnson, the Libertarian Party's nominee for president, has made no secret of his desire to be on stage with Republican Donald Trump and Democrat Hillary Clinton in the upcoming presidential debates . " Our America Initiative ," an arm of the Libertarian Party, filed a lawsuit last September against the Commission on Presidential Debates, challenging its "15 percent threshold."
Most electoral map projections have Missouri as a Republican state in November, but it is a toss up in a current poll. Hillary Clinton has 41 percent, Donald Trump 40 percent and Libertarian Gary Johnson 9 percent, according to a Mason-Dixon survey of 625 likely voters conducted last weekend.
Donald Trump did not get a lift coming out of last week's GOP convention, according to the latest results from the NBC News/Survey Monkey tracking poll . Hillary Clinton still leads Trump by 1 point, 46 percent to 45 percent, according to the results.
Donald Trump comes out of his convention ahead of Hillary Clinton in the race for the White House, topping her 44% to 39% in a four-way matchup including Gary Johnson and Jill Stein and by three points in a two-way head-to-head, 48% to 45%. That latter finding represents a 6-point convention bounce for Trump, which are traditionally measured in two-way matchups.
"Trump currently leads Clinton in Kansas, 44-27 percent, with 16 percent still undecided. Libertarian candidate Gary Johnson is drawing support from 7 percent of likely voters, while 6 percent said they intend to vote for someone else."
The presidential campaigning has gone on for over a year and we're just now getting to the official nomination of candidates for the two major parties. Many voters already have campaign fatigue.
Libertarian nominee Gary Johnson talks with Cleveland 19's Mark Nolan in a live interview about the state of the 2016 election and his thoughts on the Republican National Convention in Cleveland. Find out Johnson's reaction to Ted Cruz's speech on the third day of the convention, where Cruz did not endorse Trump.