2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumDonald Trump is not qualified to be president. And the American people know it.
By Greg Sargent July 18 at 9:10 AM
As the GOP convention gets underway in Cleveland today, three national polls released over the weekend showed Hillary Clinton leading Donald Trump: A CNN poll putting Clinton up by 49-42; an NBC/Wall Street Journal poll putting her up by 46-41; and a Washington Post/ABC News poll putting her up by 47-43.
But buried beneath the toplines is evidence of another dynamic that gets at something important about the state of this race: While both Clinton and Trump are very unpopular, large majorities in two of these polls believe that only one of them is qualified for the presidency, and equally large majorities believe that the other one is not.
The new WaPo poll finds, for instance, that Americans say by 59-39 that Clinton is qualified to serve as president, but they also say by 60-37 that Trump is not qualified to serve as president.
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The WaPo poll also finds that 59 percent of Americans say that Clinton has the better personality and temperament to serve effectively as president, while only 28 percent of Americans say that about Trump.
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CaliforniaPeggy
(150,132 posts)whistler162
(11,155 posts)however he is qualified to be President, 35 years or older and born American.
cojoel
(961 posts)Trump never produced the "long form" version of his birth certificate, and that was his own criteria.