Leading GOP pollster Bill McInturff says voters aren’t going for Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump, and the country will see Democrat Hillary Clinton secure the White House in the fall.
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“Trump does not represent the mainstream views” of Republicans, said McInturff. He predicts Trump “will lose by 5 to 7 points … and we will go from our first African-American president to our first woman president” in November.
McInturff was addressing a luncheon at a major climate change summit being held in Washington on moving forward on the United Nations climate change deal agreed to in Paris last year.
He was brought in to discuss where Americans are on the climate issue, given the deep concerns by foreign leaders that the U.S. will flounder on its obligations under the deal due to the widespread Republican opposition to the Paris agreement.
“I have the unenviable task to explain American politics,” McInturff said. He said climate change is not a priority in this election season. People are angry and unhappy, and are still suffering from the “great recession.” He said it is a “very, very unstable time.”
“This campaign is never going to get to this issue,” he said.
He said recent Gallup polls show people think its important, but there is a “massive partisan difference” and it “does not register with Republicans.”
This reality makes any legislation to address global warming very difficult, and nearly impossible.
