2016 Presidential Polls: Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton Pennsylvania Leads Get Smaller
Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton have both seen their once sizable leads in Pennsylvania dwindled down to single digits.
Just hours after the two party front-runners were blitzed in blowout primary losses in Wisconsin, a new Quinnipiac University poll now found the pair holding on in Pennsylvania by an average of less than eight points with less than three weeks remaining before voters go to the polls on April 26.
Trump Leads by Just Nine Points
Researchers found Trump leads Texas Sen. and Republican challenger Ted Cruz by just nine points at 39 percent to 30 percent, with Ohio Gov. John Kasich running third with a respectable 24 percent share of the vote.
Meanwhile, Clinton leads suddenly surging Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders by just 50 percent to 44 percent.
As general election season grows nearer, the trend of declining support seems to be an ongoing problem for Trump, who according to a recent RealClearPolitics (RCP) survey now has just 37 percent favorable rating among all general election voters.
Trump Still Planning Mass Deportations
Much of Trump's struggles appear to be with Latino voters, with the RCP poll finding he now suffers from an 80 percent unfavorable rating among Hispanics.
The bombastic New York City real estate mogul recently did little to change that when he revealed if he is elected he plans to make good on his vow to force Mexico into paying for the erection of a 1,000 mile wall along the Mexican border by zeroing in on the billions of dollars in remittances immigrants residing in the U.S. send back home to destitute family members.
In a memo released by his campaign, it's detailed that the plan would work by changing a rule under the USA Patriot Act that would allow for the seizure of funds sent to Mexico through money transfers. The plan would also ban non-Americans from wiring funds outside the country unless they can prove legal status in the country.
"It's an easy decision for Mexico: make a onetime payment of $5-10 billion to ensure that $24 billion continues to flow into their country year after year," the memo asserts.
Previously, Trump has vowed to deport all 11 million immigrants now estimated to be residing in the U.S. over just an 18-month period. He marked the launch of is campaign by deriding all Mexican immigrants as "rapists" and "criminals."
A recent Washington Post survey found in a head-to-head matchup against Clinton, Trump would lose the Latino vote by a nearly 4-1 margin at 73 percent to 16 percent.
When it comes to Republican candidates, Trump is not along in his vow to carry out such swift and sudden actions. Cruz has also made the vow of mass deportations a staple of his platform, even though a recent American Action Forum survey found that such an act could cost the country somewhere in the neighborhood of $400 to $600 billion over two decades and trigger an economic collapse easily on par with the Great Recession.
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