of change? announcer: the very latest on the final stretch and the fight to the finish. 48 hours, 2 candidates, 1 new president. who will be number 45? from abc news, it s this week. here now chief anchor george stephanopoulos. good morning. 48 hours to go in a campaign that s been anything but normal. unpredictable, bitter and ugly. two of the least liked candidates in history slugging it out with so much at stake. hillary clinton and donald trump in a last-minute scramble now. hopscotching across the same handful of states as our latest tracking poll shows clinton edging up in this final weekend. now five points ahead, 48 to 43. her voters showing new signs of enthusiasm. and record numbers of americans have already turned out to vote. 41 million ballots and counting, democrats buoyed by a latino surge in florida and nevada. the goop encouraged in iowa and ohio and all over the country, high anxiety. one sign that trump s rally last night in reno, the secret service r
here. i ve been through it. we ve talked about it on the news. we want to focus on, obviously, pennsylvania, where hillary clinton, according to your poll, leads donald trump 49% to 38%. not anymore. yes, and we will get to that. we ll get to that. you see the sampling error there. and we ll just throw out some more information. here are some subgroups of where there s big support between the two candidates. big lead with clinton with white women in pennsylvania, and, after that, we will also see that the unfavorability of both candidates is pretty high, but clinton is 52%. trump is 62%, trump 10 points higher in that. what s the biggest surprise that you ve found in all of this? well, i think the biggest surprise was that, for the clinton campaign, it s all about the southeast. it s all about the four suburban counties and philadelphia. 1/3 of the vote comes out of 5 counties. think about that for a minute. and she leads there. and she leads there. and the race has
for the time being, and as we ve reported several times, philadelphia has seen protests similar to the peaceful one going on in dallas. we haven t really seen any outbreaks of violence around here during them. we know that protesters will be at the dnc. they re going to be gathering at fdr park, which is across from the wells fargo center. it doesn t mean that there won t be other protests outside of that area. dom, if you were at some of these dnc meetings restrategizing, what are some of the things you d like to hear? well, i don t know about violence from these groups. i don t see that, either. what i d like to hear from mayor kenney and the others, though, is, we re not gonna allow people just to shut down traffic, shut down streets, block people in more than inconvenience them for hours at a time, and i m told they believe that s the constitutional right. i don t. how about you, jim? well, i think that the key, getting ready for the convention, is coordination, a
is the cold war on the verge of reigniting? from abc news, this is this week. here, now, co-anchor martha raddatz. good morning. it s labor day weekend. game on. counting the days. 65 to the election. 22 to the first debate. just 19 to the first early voting. but for all the sound and fury of the summer, we re more or less where we were in late spring. hillary clinton cautiously nursing a small but consistent lead. persistent questions about her trustworthiness making it hard for her to pull away. and donald trump still stuck around 40%. still wavering between speaking forcefully to his base and reaching out to undecided voters. donald trump at an african-american church in detroit saturday, getting an opportunity to reshape his image. reading from notes. speaking softly. i fully understand that the african-american community has suffered from discrimination. and that there are many wrongs that must still be made right. reporter: contrast that to this, last month. uns
some of her lead to donald trump. it s now 47% to 40%. that s among likely voters in pennsylvania, and that s a change from an 11-point lead clinton had right after the democratic national convention, which was in philadelphia, pennsylvania 49-38 back then. so, just talking about the presidential race, what happened between then and now, terry? first of all, this is the third poll this week that shows the race tightening third poll this week. essentially, here s what happened. hillary clinton has not had the best two weeks all the questions not just about the e-mail, but about her activities in the state department, whether favors where granted as secretary of state to help the clinton foundation in speeches. this two weeks has been not her best. the second big point is that i ll look across the table here donald trump did not insert foot in mouth, [chuckling] you know what i mean? i think he would agree. for two weeks, he was i hate this expression president