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46% to 43%
Hillary Clinton’s lead over Donald Trump in a general election matchup, with 11% undecided, according to a new GW Battleground Poll. Pollster Ed Goeas: “The Republican Party has a strongly favorable political environment for winning the White House. If a mainstream Republican candidate were the presumptive nominee, the GOP would likely be in a strong position for a lot of wins, top to bottom, in November.”
I can do presidential folks, believe me.
— Donald Trump, quoted by NBC News, adding that it was “easy.”
I have never been more worried about the Republican Party breaking apart than I am today.
— Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC), quoted by The Hill.
25
Number of states with the highest levels of income inequality. Of those, 17 have held primaries so far, and Hillary Clinton has won 16 of them, NBC News reports. When asked why he thinks he’s losing in those states, Sen. Bernie Sanders responded: “Well, because poor people don’t vote. I mean, that’s just a fact.”
It also helps that Trump’s system-is-rigged message is relatively simple and plays into the media’s master narrative of the Republican race as a conflict between the Republican base and the GOP establishment. The Republicans’ delegate selection rules, by contrast, require an attention to detail that narrative-driven stories about the Republican race can misconstrue.
