On Friday, he called on supporters to patrol polling sites after they vote November 8 to ensure “cheating” doesn’t take place. “And a Donald Trump presidency would do just that”.
Advertisement
The hole he has dug for himself is wide and deep.
Of Michigan’s nine Republican U.S. House members, six support Trump.
Clinton’s path is simpler: Win most of the Obama states. Day by day, he’s making it no easier for them to come his way. They wonder whether it will happen by the end of the month or at all. That notion is a relic of another era – and Trump is hardly underexposed. “Please fill out this form to receive more information about becoming a volunteer Trump Election Observer”.
Victoria Bearden, a 36-year-old Republican from Salt Lake City, was one of many who approached McMullin after his speech to thank him for giving her a choice. He got into a pointless and damaging exchange of criticisms with Khizr and Ghazala Khan, the parents of Army Captain Humayun Khan, who was killed in Iraq in 2004. Last month, Trump toyed with not endorsing House Speaker Paul Ryan, R-Wis., before the state’s August 9 primary, when Ryan walloped a little-known challenger.
The stakes this year, he suggested, are high, not the least because the next president might appoint several Supreme Court justices.
Clinton, Trump said, can’t renegotiate trade deals “because her donors won’t allow it”.
“I would’ve said it in a different way”.
Donald Trump and his campaign are increasingly casting doubt on the legitimacy of the presidential election.
Where has this left Trump?
Clinton had a small lead over Trump in an Atlanta Journal Constitution poll released earlier this month (Clinton at 44% and Trump at 40%). The two biggest battlegrounds, OH and Florida, remain competitive, although Clinton now leads in both. “When it comes down to policy and Trump’s policy, he will win”.
When an interviewer pointed out Russian Federation had annexed Crimea, Trump said he meant Russian Federation wouldn’t dare go farther if he were president. And The New York Times’ Upshot Forecast also gives the former Secretary of State an 86 percent chance of becoming the 45 president.
The net of all this is that Trump’s path looks as or more hard than it did a few months ago.
“There is no evidence because the election hasn’t occurred yet”. Meanwhile, 62 percent of Clinton supporters expressed enthusiasm. One in particular earned an unusual rebuke from Trump. His crowds remain huge. Democrats already have 200 staffers and say they’re aiming for 100 offices in Florida. “But I’ll tell you, would I be good at keeping jobs over here”, he said.
Trump continues to practice the politics of subtraction, finding ways to prevent expansion of his potential coalition. Among registered voters, Clinton leads by 8 points. He is lagging among nonwhite voters – who back Clinton by 10-to-1 margins – and with women, where Clinton enjoys a 59-to-36 percentage point advantage.
Among Democrats, Clinton has picked up six points since May. Two friends who accompanied him were thrown out of the arena when they attempted to object to Trump. When Clinton’s campaign cried foul, Trump blamed her for trying to “divert attention from the dishonest behavior of herself and her husband”.
He has made no progress picking up support from non-white voters and so must rely nearly totally on whites to win. He also encouraged supporters to monitor the polls themselves.
Among whites with college degrees, Clinton has gone from down one to ahead by six.
While Trump’s path to an electoral vote majority isn’t impossible, it’s clearly hard.
But Trump? “He’s a little worrisome”, she said. His convention bounce was modest; hers was larger and, so far, more lasting.
And it could be even more unpredictable than ever. The Commission on Presidential Debates established the dates and formats past year.
At a rally Thursday in Florida, Trump, who normally only speaks about winning, admitted he is having a “tremendous problem” in reliably red Utah.
But many Republicans wonder what Trump is waiting for, since Clinton has used time and money to define herself, and more importantly, Trump, without much of a retort. Trump’s big personality was an asset in those multi-candidate forums.
Advertisement
Clinton is clearly benefiting from the anti-Trump wave. If the polls then look close to what they are now, he would need decisive performances throughout the debate season.
