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$45 million
Amount Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign raised during its first quarter, her campaign told Bloomberg. “Clinton’s haul from her campaign’s launch in mid-April through June 30 is a record for primary money raised in a candidate’s first quarter. President Barack Obama held the previous record for a campaign’s first quarter, raising $41.9 million after launching his re-election bid.”
8 points
Hillary Clinton’s current lead in New Hampshire over Bernie Sanders in the Democratic race for president, 43% to 35%, according to a new WMUR/CNN Granite State Poll. On the Republican side, the poll finds Jeb Bush remains on top at 16%, followed by Donald Trump at 11%, Rand Paul at 9%, Scott Walker at 8%, Marco Rubio at 6%, Carly Fiorina at 6%, Ben Carson at 5% and Chris Christie at 5%.
48%
President Obama’s latest approval rating. “Why is that number important? Because the poll shows — once again — how Hillary Clinton and Obama are inextricably tied together,” according to First Read. “And so an Obama approval in the high 40s is good news for Hillary’s general-election prospects, and an Obama approval in the low 40s is bad news (like we saw in 2014). … Oh, and don’t forget this: George W. Bush’s approval rating at this same point in time heading into the 2008 contest was 29%.”
75%
Of national Democratic primary voters say Hillary Clinton is their first choice to win the Democratic presidential nomination – compared with 15% who pick Sen. Bernie Sanders, 4% who say former Sen. Jim Webb and 2% who select former Gov. Martin O’Malley, a new NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll finds. Looking ahead to the general election, Clinton also leads Jeb Bush by eight points (48% to 40%), Sen. Marco Rubio by 10 points (50% to 40%) and Gov. Scott Walker by 14 (51% to 37%).
10 points
Hillary Clinton’s lead over Bernie Sanders in the Democratic presidential race is 41% to 31%, according to a new Suffolk University poll in New Hampshire. Said pollster David Paleologos: “Most political observers felt that Hillary Clinton’s large early lead among Democratic voters would eventually shrunk a bit over time. But in New Hampshire right now, the lead has shrunk a lot, and this is a much different Democratic primary race than we are seeing in other states so far.”
