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Trump speaks to a jittery nation and a jittery party
CLEVELAND -- Donald Trump has two goals over the
next four days at his convention here: to address (and satisfy) a
jittery nation and jittery party. Indeed, today's theme -- "Make America
Safe Again" -- plays right into yesterday's tragic violence in Baton
Rouge, LA. As for the jittery party, when you talk to GOP operatives who
are gathered here, few truly expect to win in November. So Trump has
opportunities to calm the nerves of both a rattled public and a rattled
Republican Party. Does he seize them?
A divided (and unpopular) GOP comes to Cleveland
As Republicans begin the first day of their
convention here, we can safely say that the state of their party is,
well, not so strong. In the new NBC/WSJ poll, which finds Hillary
Clinton holding on to her five-point lead over Donald Trump,
only 38% of Republican voters say they are satisfied with Trump as
their nominee, versus 54% of Democrats who say they are satisfied with
Clinton. What's more, a combined 85% of all voters - including 78% of
Republicans - say the GOP is not that unified or only somewhat unified.
That's compared with 48% of all voters (and 40% of Democrats) who say
that about the Democratic Party. And overall, the Republican Party has a
fav/unfav rating of 27%/51% (-24) in the poll, compared with the
Democrats' 39%/41% score (-2). So while you could look at our poll and
fairly conclude that both Trump (-33) and Clinton (-22) are unpopular in
our NBC/WSJ poll, there really is no comparing the state of the GOP
heading into their convention and the Democrats going into theirs.
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