If Trump was to win all the remaining battleground states on the map, he’d still be shy of the 270 votes needed to win the White House which means he is going to have to pick off at least one of the states now leaning in Clinton’s direction in addition to running the table in those battlegrounds, he wrote.
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“All of this calculation over the emails will probably be drowned out by the determination that he’s not fit to be president”, said Matt Bennett, once an aide to former Vice President Al Gore and a senior vice president at the centrist think tank Third Way. It will be tough for Clinton to replicate that sort of turnout in November, although alarm about Trump could motivate voters of color even if they are not inspired by Clinton.
Trump still has the potential for plays in Pennsylvania, Ohio and Iowa, and without counting toss-up states, Sabato’s latest battleground map shows Clinton firmly in the lead. Trump began with a visit to flood-wreaked Louisiana and ended with a measured, but pointed rally in MI.
Earlier this week, Trump appointed Steve Bannon, a right-wing news executive, as CEO and promoted pollster Kellyanne Conway to campaign manager, in what has signaled a marked new tone following colossal missteps. Overall in July, Clinton raised $90 million for her campaign and Democratic partners, while Trump raised $80 million for the campaign and Republican groups.
With pressure mounting, the White House said after Trump’s appearance that Obama would visit Louisiana on Tuesday to survey the damage.
WASHINGTON – The leading super PAC backing Hillary Clinton, Priorities USA, reported Saturday it had almost $40 million in cash on hand, a staggering amount less than three months away from Election Day.
Trump has relied heavily on the Republican National Committee for conventional campaign infrastructure. Significant erosion of the black vote for Democrats would pose a huge challenge for the Clinton campaign in several key states and could potentially endanger several supposedly safe Democrat-held Senate and House seats.
The businessman and his running mate, Mike Pence, drove past piles of ripped-up carpet, furniture and personal belongings discarded on curbs.
“The flooding there is bigger than anyone expected – more than 40,000 homes have been damaged and more than 100,000 people have been affected”, Clinton said in a statement posted on Facebook. “Every policy that has failed this city, and so many others, is a policy supported by Hillary Clinton”. Trump put out his first ads days ago, spending $5 million to air them in Florida, Ohio, Pennsylvania and North Carolina. Trump has a similar lead in Arizona. Although the suburb just outside Lansing is overwhelmingly white, Trump made an appeal to black voters. Trump accused Democrats of taking advantage of black voters while failing to offer them new jobs, better schools and a way out of poverty. Within hours of his speech, she tweeted: “This is so ignorant it’s staggering”.
Additionally, considering the poll’s methodology, a look at the more easily decipherable table of daily numbers above shows that the shift occurred nearly entirely before Trump’s Tuesday, August 16 speech in West Bend, Wisconsin in the wake of the Milwaukee riots.
Clinton and her campaign attribute much of her low approval ratings to a belief that voters like Clinton more when she’s working than campaigning, a view that they say is intertwined with the scandals of her husband’s administration, years of relentless GOP attacks and how Americans view female candidates. On Thursday, he said “regretted” some of the things he has said “in the heat of the debate” but he wasn’t specific.
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“I don’t want to pivot”, he said.
