On the trail
President Obama, speaking at an event Sunday in New York City, said that a bias against powerful women could hurt Hillary Clinton with voters in November. "There's a reason why we haven't had a woman president," Obama said at the fundraiser for Clinton. "We as a society still grapple with what it means to see powerful women, and it still troubles us in a lot of ways, unfairly." In his brief remarks, Obama touted his administration's achievements over the past eight years, praised Clinton and blasted Donald Trump as unfit to be president as he has repeatedly in recent weeks. His remarks about Americans' reluctance to support a powerful woman were among his strongest on the subject.
Donald Trump still doesn't have John Kasich's support. And he says he doesn't care. Speaking on "Fox & Friends" Monday, Trump again found himself discussing the long-since resolved primary battle for the GOP nomination. The Ohio governor has been defending what he calls his principled decision not to actively support his party's nominee. "They all want to run in four years, right? If I were the head of the Republican Party, I would say you can't do it," Trump said. "In the meantime, we're either tied or leading. It'd be nice to have their support. But at this point I don't even really care about their support," Trump said, referring to Kasich and former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush.
Tim Kaine, the Democratic vice presidential nominee, shared this tidbit about his three children on Monday: One of them supported Bernie Sanders over Hillary Clinton during the party's primary season. Kaine's disclosure came during a well-attended rally at Iowa State University in Ames, where Kaine urged young voters to rally around the Democratic ticket in November. "Hey, we're a big family on the Democratic side," Kaine said. Sanders, the senator from Vermont, was a big hit among the millennial generation, consistently outperforming Clinton in Democratic primaries and caucuses.
Donald Trump has almost no plausible path to the White House unless he wins Florida, a state where Hispanic voters could deal a decisive blow to his chances. But a new poll Monday, by the New York Times Upshot/Siena College, suggests that Trump is keeping his hopes alive in Florida, the largest and most diverse of the crucial battleground states. The reason: White voters favor him by a large margin. Hillary Clinton leads by a single point, 41 to 40 percent, among likely voters in a four-way race that includes Gary Johnson and Jill Stein. The race is tied in the head-to-head race, 43-43 percent. The poll shows Trump leading Clinton by 51 percent to 30 percent among white voters — and that includes all white voters, not just those who have been so vital to his campaign: whites without a college education. But among Hispanic voters, Clinton leads Trump by a 40-point margin.
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