She has. In the short term, Clinton’s missteps – her speech calling half of Trump’s supporters “deplorables”, her decision to keep her pneumonia secret until after she appeared to collapse – probably contributed to her swoon in the polls. Asked in an interview with The Washington Post whether he’d now concede that Barack Obama was born in Hawaii instead of Kenya-as Trump insisted for the better part of two years-the Republican nominee couldn’t quite bring himself to acknowledge that the president is American-born. “He still wouldn’t say America”, Clinton said Thursday night at an event hosted by the Congressional Hispanic Caucus. Bornstein is known for his proclamation a year ago that “If elected, Mr. Trump, I can state unequivocally, will be the healthiest individual ever elected to the presidency”. He has just 1 campaign office in Florida, 2 in Pennsylvania, 16 in OH, 2 of his own offices in Virginia (the other 18 are Republican Party offices), and 1 in North Carolina. And the state polling situation isn’t really any better for her. The most recent individual polls put Clinton’s advantage at 1 or 2 percentage points.
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Democratic presidential nominee Hillary ClintonHillary Rodham ClintonLibertarian VP candidate: Talk of defecting for Clinton “wishful thinking” Obama to headline Clinton fundraiser Clinton condemns attacks in NJ, NY, Minn. But they believe that, if they can turn out their votes – especially young people, a critical Democratic constituency that has registered soft support for Clinton – they have ample ways to block Trump from winning the necessary 270 electoral votes despite clear deterioration in several states.
Geoff Garin, the Priorities USA pollster, said Trump’s surge in OH and elsewhere is largely due to his consolidation of Republican and Republican-leaning independent voters. His abysmal showings among anyone who isn’t a poorly educated, elderly, white working class voter shows that he needs to make a decent showing among minority voters such as Hispanics and African Americans. “If we win North Carolina, along with Virginia, where we are in very good shape, we choke off so many paths to 270 that he’s threading a needle that has a smaller eye than any previous Republican candidate”.
Michelle Obama campaigned for Clinton at George Mason University in Virginia on September 15. “I’m not great at taking it easy even under ordinary circumstances, but with just two months to go until Election Day, sitting at home was pretty much the last place I wanted to be”. A campaign official said that if MI became truly competitive, “that would create complications” in their Electoral College calculations. He’s fared well in important states like Nevada, Arizona, and Colorado. “To young people, these are pretty darn old people”.
Benenson said of voters 18 to 34, “We are going to continue to galvanize them, organize them and get them out to the polls in November”.
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Michael Leffler said he had been a Bernie Sanders supporter, not a Trump fan, but as he wrote an email responding to The Dispatch, he quickly switched parties. She’s a better candidate now; she’s still likely to win. “It’s become more of a reality show than a presidential campaign”. “Hillary’s attitude is, I’m an underdog – until I’m the victor”.
