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42% to 39%
Hillary Clinton’s lead over Donald Trump has withered to three points, according to a new McClatchy-Marist poll. “Her numbers plunged as the controversy over her private email server while secretary of state dominated political news.” A new Economist/YouGov poll also shows Clinton with a three points lead, 40% to 38%.
46%
“Of voters in a recent survey said they had seen TV ads supporting Donald Trump in the last week. There’s just one problem: His campaign hasn’t aired any, and his friendly super PACs have run very few,” the Wall Street Journal reports. “Meanwhile, 52% of respondents said they had seen an ad promoting Democrat Hillary Clinton—just six percentage points more than the proportion who said they had spotted Trump ads.”
$57 million
Amount Hillary Clinton and her allies have spent “so far in the general election — $25 million coming from the campaign and another $32 million from pro-Clinton Super PACs. By comparison, Team Trump has aired $3.6 million in ads, with all of the spending from two outside groups.”Donald Trump and his backers over the airwaves by a 15-to-1 margin,” NBC News reports.
Conservatism is temporarily dead. I mean, if you look at it, we have two candidates. Donald Trump is barely a Republican. He’s certainly not a conservative.
— Jeb Bush, in an interview with the Washington Post.
