The most recent polls in the presidential race should bring small-to-no comfort to Hillary Clinton, according to one pollster. Assuming she locks down the Democratic nomination, she is facing a battle with presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump fraught with uncertainty.
“Hillary Clinton appears to be a damaged candidate,” Zogby Analytics President John Zogby told 790 KABC’s McIntyre in the Morning Show. “You look at the polls, it’s not only that it’s tight between her and Donald Trump, nationally and in a number of key states, but that she’s only polling 41, 42, 43 percent. Someone who is so well-known, where opinions are so well-formed, it’s clear that folks may be just looking for an alternative to her.”
Zogby says with Clinton as the nominee, Democrats have to face the prospect that a huge segment of millennials who support Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders, may sit out the election.
“That could spell doom for the Democrats,” said Zogby. “That could be a turnout model more like 2010 and 2014 (Congressional elections) as opposed to a presidential model – 2008 and 2012 – where you had high turnout among young voters. Millennials hold the key.”
Zogby says this should be a good election year for Democrats across the board, given President Barack Obama’s decent poll numbers and a mildly-growing economy. But the White House remains a question mark.
“You just have a (presidential) candidate who is so damaged and so unable to reinvent herself that she really becomes an albatross for herself.”
Zogby was a guest on 790 KABC’s McIntyre in the Morning Show with Doug McIntyre and Terri-Rae Elmer.
By Sandy Wells
KABC News
