Going toe-to-toe with the towering center backs that buttressed Colorado’s league-best defense, Valdez leapt high to win headers and stretched every sinew for loose balls.

Even when occasionally violating these rules, the U.S. has advocated for them, and thus buttressed them and further constrained itself.

The Bloomberg poll has her up by three percentage points, buttressed by strong support from women, young voters, minorities and people with college degrees.