[h=1]Trump narrows the gap in ANOTHER national poll, cutting cuts Hillary's lead nearly in half during the past week and trails by just three points[/h]
PUBLISHED: 12:08, 17 May 2016 | UPDATED: 12:34, 17 May 2016
Donald Trump has closed to within 3 percentage points of Hillary Clinton in a new national tracking poll from NBC News, gaining 2 points on her in the past week.
Trump has already closed to within the margin of error in a Reuters poll, trailing her last in last Thursday's 5-day rolling average by just 1.2 percentage points.
In the NBC News weekly tracking poll, conducted online by the SurveyMonkey company, Trump and Clinton hold strong command of their bases. But The billionaire Republican has a strong 8-point advantage among self-described 'independent' voters.
Those voters, the unwashed middle of the nation's political bell curve, will be the most sought-after and most heavily targeted in the general election, with both sides trying to capture their attention and win their loyalty – especially in the crucial swing states where either Clinton or Trump could prevail.
Unlike in past election cycles, however, 'independent' voters and 'moderate' voters don't overlap neatly.
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RIGHT WHERE HE WANTS HER: Donald Trump is closing in on Hillary Clinton, narrowing her lead to just 3 points nationally in a new online NBC News poll
CRUCIAL MIDDLE: Independent voters, those who identify neither as Republicans nor as Democrats, will be a crucial battleground in November's tug-of-war, and Trump is winning them by 8 points
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ALL ABOUT THAT BASE: Hillary Clinton is winning with women, blacks, Hispanics, poor voters and college graduates
Clinton is beating Trump handily among self-described 'moderates,' by a 53-39 gap.
That suggests that 'independent' voters this year are spread all across the political spectrum and not confined to that group who are torn between opposing political poles.
Instead they appear to be a more ideologically diverse group, and their strong preference for Trump suggests that there may be a rich vein of right-leaning 'independents' who aren't firmly in the Republican fold – perhaps because they're not frequent voters – but are now warming to his message.
In other news sure to buoy Team Trump, the BNC News poll found Republican voters trust him more than House Speaker Paul Ryan to lead the GOP.
The size of that margin, a 58-39 spread, will give Trump new leverage as he tries to persuade moderate Republicans to fall in line behind him.
That group favors Trump over Ryan, as do the segments of the party that are more conservative.
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READY FOR HIS CLOSE-UP: The polling results come against a backdrop of national anticipation as Fox prepares to air a prime-time interview with Fox News Channel host Megyn Kelly that could set the news agenda for weeks
.Ryan, the Republicans' vice presidential nominee in 2012, has said he is not yet ready to endorse Trump or embrace his policy goals. The two men met in Washington last Thursday.In the general election matchup, Clinton is head-and-shoulders above Trump with blacks and Hispanics, leading him with those groups by 75 and 37 per cent, respectively.
Trump is winning among white voters by 14 points, however, a number large enough to cancel out his deficit among the smaller numbers of minority ballot-casters.
Gender appears to be even more crucial than race in the polling numbers, however.
Clinton is leading Trump by 15 points among women. Trump's 11 point edge among men isn't enough to erase it.
That same four-percent gap between the Democratic edge with women and the Republican advantage with men played out in the 2012 presidential election, with Barack Obama occupying the same position Clinton is in today – and winning.
Clinton also leads Trump among college-educated voters and those from the poorest households.
Trump outperforms her among less-educated groups, and in households that earn more.
THE PEOPLE HAVE SPOKEN? Republican and Republican-leaning voters told SurveyMonkey that they trust Donald Trump far more than Paul Ryan to be the head of the GOP
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HE'S STILL THIRD IN LINE TO THE OVAL OFFICE: Ryan, the Speaker of the House of Representatives, has met iwth Trump but hasn't warmed to him enough to deliver an endorsement
The NBC News/SurveyMonkey Weekly Election Tracking Poll sampled the opinions of 14,100 adults who fill out surveys on the online platform. Of that group, 12,507 of them said they are registered to vote.
While SurveyMonkey says it has access to a pool of nearly 3 million Americans, it may not be a representative sample of American voters since less than 1 per cent of the nation's population has any chance at all of being surveyed.
SurveyMonkey itself reports that 'the biggest challenge of non-probability sampling is recreating the same kind of non-biased results that probability sampling gives you.'
But the organization says its sample is similar enough to the larger pool of American adults to be reliable within a margin of error of 1.2 percentage points.
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- Hillary Clinton leads Donald Trump by just 3 percentage points in the latest national poll from NBC News
- But Trump has a strong 8-point advantage among 'independent' voters who won't go into November with party loyalty in mind
- Hillary is ahead with 'moderate' and college-educated voters, women, blacks and Hispanics, and voters in the poorest households
- Trump leads with white voters, men, people from wealthier households and those who lack college degrees
- NBC poll may lack credibility because it pulls respondents only from the 3 million Americans who participate in 'SurveyMonkey' online polls
PUBLISHED: 12:08, 17 May 2016 | UPDATED: 12:34, 17 May 2016
Donald Trump has closed to within 3 percentage points of Hillary Clinton in a new national tracking poll from NBC News, gaining 2 points on her in the past week.
Trump has already closed to within the margin of error in a Reuters poll, trailing her last in last Thursday's 5-day rolling average by just 1.2 percentage points.
In the NBC News weekly tracking poll, conducted online by the SurveyMonkey company, Trump and Clinton hold strong command of their bases. But The billionaire Republican has a strong 8-point advantage among self-described 'independent' voters.
Those voters, the unwashed middle of the nation's political bell curve, will be the most sought-after and most heavily targeted in the general election, with both sides trying to capture their attention and win their loyalty – especially in the crucial swing states where either Clinton or Trump could prevail.
Unlike in past election cycles, however, 'independent' voters and 'moderate' voters don't overlap neatly.
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RIGHT WHERE HE WANTS HER: Donald Trump is closing in on Hillary Clinton, narrowing her lead to just 3 points nationally in a new online NBC News poll
CRUCIAL MIDDLE: Independent voters, those who identify neither as Republicans nor as Democrats, will be a crucial battleground in November's tug-of-war, and Trump is winning them by 8 points
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ALL ABOUT THAT BASE: Hillary Clinton is winning with women, blacks, Hispanics, poor voters and college graduates
Clinton is beating Trump handily among self-described 'moderates,' by a 53-39 gap.
That suggests that 'independent' voters this year are spread all across the political spectrum and not confined to that group who are torn between opposing political poles.
Instead they appear to be a more ideologically diverse group, and their strong preference for Trump suggests that there may be a rich vein of right-leaning 'independents' who aren't firmly in the Republican fold – perhaps because they're not frequent voters – but are now warming to his message.
In other news sure to buoy Team Trump, the BNC News poll found Republican voters trust him more than House Speaker Paul Ryan to lead the GOP.
The size of that margin, a 58-39 spread, will give Trump new leverage as he tries to persuade moderate Republicans to fall in line behind him.
That group favors Trump over Ryan, as do the segments of the party that are more conservative.
.
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READY FOR HIS CLOSE-UP: The polling results come against a backdrop of national anticipation as Fox prepares to air a prime-time interview with Fox News Channel host Megyn Kelly that could set the news agenda for weeks
.Ryan, the Republicans' vice presidential nominee in 2012, has said he is not yet ready to endorse Trump or embrace his policy goals. The two men met in Washington last Thursday.In the general election matchup, Clinton is head-and-shoulders above Trump with blacks and Hispanics, leading him with those groups by 75 and 37 per cent, respectively.
Trump is winning among white voters by 14 points, however, a number large enough to cancel out his deficit among the smaller numbers of minority ballot-casters.
Gender appears to be even more crucial than race in the polling numbers, however.
Clinton is leading Trump by 15 points among women. Trump's 11 point edge among men isn't enough to erase it.
That same four-percent gap between the Democratic edge with women and the Republican advantage with men played out in the 2012 presidential election, with Barack Obama occupying the same position Clinton is in today – and winning.
Clinton also leads Trump among college-educated voters and those from the poorest households.
Trump outperforms her among less-educated groups, and in households that earn more.
THE PEOPLE HAVE SPOKEN? Republican and Republican-leaning voters told SurveyMonkey that they trust Donald Trump far more than Paul Ryan to be the head of the GOP
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HE'S STILL THIRD IN LINE TO THE OVAL OFFICE: Ryan, the Speaker of the House of Representatives, has met iwth Trump but hasn't warmed to him enough to deliver an endorsement
The NBC News/SurveyMonkey Weekly Election Tracking Poll sampled the opinions of 14,100 adults who fill out surveys on the online platform. Of that group, 12,507 of them said they are registered to vote.
While SurveyMonkey says it has access to a pool of nearly 3 million Americans, it may not be a representative sample of American voters since less than 1 per cent of the nation's population has any chance at all of being surveyed.
SurveyMonkey itself reports that 'the biggest challenge of non-probability sampling is recreating the same kind of non-biased results that probability sampling gives you.'
But the organization says its sample is similar enough to the larger pool of American adults to be reliable within a margin of error of 1.2 percentage points.
Read more:
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Joint Statement on the United States-Korea Free Trade Agreement
ECONOMY & JOBS
Issued on: September 24, 2018
We, the Presidents of the United States of America and the Republic of Korea, hereby reaffirm our close alliance and the importance of maintaining strong, mutually beneficial trade and economic ties between our peoples.
We welcome the successful conclusion of negotiations between our governments that have resulted in amendments and modifications to improve the United States-Korea Free Trade Agreement.
With today’s signing of our newly concluded agreement, we pledge to direct our officials to move forward with additional steps, as required in our respective countries, to bring the updated agreement into force as soon as practicable.
We furthermore welcome this achievement as tangible evidence of the strength of the relationship between our two countries.
DONALD J. TRUMP MOON JAE-IN
President of the United States of America President of the Republic of Korea
September 24, 2018
New York, New York
United States of America
[FONT="]From day one, I promised the American people that I would renegotiate our trade deals to ensure that our agreements were fair and reciprocal. For decades, politicians have talked about fixing broken trade deals only to do absolutely nothing about them. My administration is the first to actually keep our promise and deliver. And in addition to this deal, we have many in the works, and they’re fair deals. They’re reciprocal deals. And they make a tremendous difference to our workers, our companies, and to the United States as a whole.
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[FONT="]The new U.S.-Korea agreement includes significant improvements to reduce our trade deficit and to expand opportunities to export American products to South Korea. In other words, we are now going to start sending products to South Korea.
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[FONT="]These outcomes give the finest American-made automobiles, innovative medicines, and agricultural crops much better access to Korean markets. I think our farmers are going to be extremely happy. It was very limited as to what they could do and what they could send. And now it’s a open market, and they’re going to be sending a lot more farm products. That makes me feel very good. I love our farmers.
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[FONT="]As a part of this agreement, we have also secured increased access to America’s auto industry. South Korea will double the annual number of American cars sold within. In other words, we used to sell a maximum of 25, and we wouldn’t even get to that number, and now we’re going to 50,000. We’re doubling it, per manufacturer. And that’s a doubling. So it’s 50,000 per manufacturer — cars. And that’s each year.
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[FONT="]So that’s a doubling of the cars per manufacturer that can enter its market, meeting U.S. safety standards. So we’re going with, now, a U.S. safety standard. The standard was at a point that you couldn’t get cars in. So we’re going to the U.S. safety standard. Very important to understand.
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[FONT="]This agreement will reduce bureaucracy and increase prosperity in both of our countries. Workers in South Korea and America will find new customers and new opportunities to expand and grow. Our teams will be working hard to ensure that the terms of the deal are fully implemented.[/FONT]
Issued on: September 24, 2018
We, the Presidents of the United States of America and the Republic of Korea, hereby reaffirm our close alliance and the importance of maintaining strong, mutually beneficial trade and economic ties between our peoples.
We welcome the successful conclusion of negotiations between our governments that have resulted in amendments and modifications to improve the United States-Korea Free Trade Agreement.
With today’s signing of our newly concluded agreement, we pledge to direct our officials to move forward with additional steps, as required in our respective countries, to bring the updated agreement into force as soon as practicable.
We furthermore welcome this achievement as tangible evidence of the strength of the relationship between our two countries.
DONALD J. TRUMP MOON JAE-IN
President of the United States of America President of the Republic of Korea
September 24, 2018
New York, New York
United States of America
[FONT="]From day one, I promised the American people that I would renegotiate our trade deals to ensure that our agreements were fair and reciprocal. For decades, politicians have talked about fixing broken trade deals only to do absolutely nothing about them. My administration is the first to actually keep our promise and deliver. And in addition to this deal, we have many in the works, and they’re fair deals. They’re reciprocal deals. And they make a tremendous difference to our workers, our companies, and to the United States as a whole.
[/FONT]
[FONT="]The new U.S.-Korea agreement includes significant improvements to reduce our trade deficit and to expand opportunities to export American products to South Korea. In other words, we are now going to start sending products to South Korea.
[/FONT]
[FONT="]These outcomes give the finest American-made automobiles, innovative medicines, and agricultural crops much better access to Korean markets. I think our farmers are going to be extremely happy. It was very limited as to what they could do and what they could send. And now it’s a open market, and they’re going to be sending a lot more farm products. That makes me feel very good. I love our farmers.
[/FONT]
[FONT="]As a part of this agreement, we have also secured increased access to America’s auto industry. South Korea will double the annual number of American cars sold within. In other words, we used to sell a maximum of 25, and we wouldn’t even get to that number, and now we’re going to 50,000. We’re doubling it, per manufacturer. And that’s a doubling. So it’s 50,000 per manufacturer — cars. And that’s each year.
[/FONT]
[FONT="]So that’s a doubling of the cars per manufacturer that can enter its market, meeting U.S. safety standards. So we’re going with, now, a U.S. safety standard. The standard was at a point that you couldn’t get cars in. So we’re going to the U.S. safety standard. Very important to understand.
[/FONT]
[FONT="]This agreement will reduce bureaucracy and increase prosperity in both of our countries. Workers in South Korea and America will find new customers and new opportunities to expand and grow. Our teams will be working hard to ensure that the terms of the deal are fully implemented.[/FONT]
