Fewer voters than ever think right amount of attention given to Islamic terrorism threat at home.
Texas Insider Report: WASHINGTON D.C. The tables have turned in this weeks White House Watch. After trailing Hillary Clinton by five points for the prior two weeks
Donald Trump has now taken a four-point lead. Most voters continue to
oppose Obamas Amnesty plans or efforts as they have from the start and believe instead that
the U.S. government needs to more aggressively deport illegal immigrants.
The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone and online survey of Likely U.S. Voters finds Trump with 43 of the vote while Clinton earns 39. 12 still like another candidate and 5 are undecided.
Last week at this time it was Clinton 44 Trump 39. This is
Trumps highest level of support in Rasmussen Reports matchups with Clinton since last October. His support has been hovering around the 40 mark since April but it remains to be
seen whether hes just having a good week or this actually represents a real move forward among voters.
Trump now earns 75 support among his fellow Republicans and picks up 14 of the Democratic vote. 76 of Democrats like Clinton as do 10 of GOP voters.
Both candidates face a sizable number of potential defections because of unhappiness with them in their own parties.
- Trump how holds a 14 lead among men
- Trump leads among older voters.
- Trump leads among whites and other minority voters
- The candidates are tied among those under 40
- Clinton leads by 7 among women
- Clinton continues to hold a wide lead among blacks
- Among voters not affiliated with either major party Trump leads by 18 but 28 of these voters like some other candidates or are undecided.
Clinton appears to have emerged relatively unscathed from the release this week of the House Select Committee on Benghazis report on her actions as secretary of State in connection with the murder of the U.S. ambassador to Libya and three other Americans by Islamic terrorists in September 2012.
The latest terrorist carnage - this week in Istanbul Turkey - also may be helping Trump who is arguing for a harsher response to radical Islam than Clinton.
Voters remain lukewarm about President Obamas national security policies and expect more of the same if Clinton moves back into the White House next January. Trump if elected will definitely change things voters say but not necessarily for the best.
The U.S. economy historically has had an average annual growth rate of 3.3 but has fallen short of that number in every year of Obamas presidency. Still his fellow Democrats give the president positive marks for his economic performance and think Clinton would do more of the same.
Trump is expected to make the economy better by all voters - except Democrats.
A tie vote in the U.S. Supreme Court last week upheld a lower court ruling that halted Obamas plan to
exempt millions of illegal immigrants from deportation.
- Trump wants to build a wall on the U.S.-Mexico border and deport many of those who are here illegally.
- Clinton has vowed to take the presidents amnesty plan even further.
Trump made a major speech on jobs and trade Tuesday that even the New York Times characterized as perhaps the most forceful case he has made for the crux of his candidacy …. that the days of globalism have passed and that a new approach is necessary."
Some also speculate that
last weeks vote in Great Britain to leave the European Union signals a rise of economic nationalism that is good for Trump. Despite the media panic and market swings that have resulted
Americans are not particularly worried that the Brexit" will hurt them in the pocketbook.
- 89 of voters who Strongly Approve of the job Obama is doing choose Clinton.
- Trump has 86 support among those who Strongly Disapprove of the presidents job performance.
Clinton has called for more gun control following the recent terrorist killings in an Orlando Florida nightclub; Trump disagrees.
Support for additional gun control has risen to its highest level ever but voters are evenly divided over whether more gun buying restrictions will help prevent future shootings like the one in Orlando.
The survey of 1000 Likely Voters was conducted on June 28-29 2016 by Rasmussen Reports. The margin of sampling error is /- 3 percentage points with a 95 level of confidence.
