GOP congressional candidates used the same argument late in the 1996 campaign, when GOP presidential candidate Bob Dole headed toward defeat against Democratic President Bill Clinton.
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The Trump campaign loved all of the email drama, forwarding out a summary of “ten different discoveries in the Federal Bureau of Investigation report” that show “her blatant disregard for the classification system”. His campaign plans to come out of the Labor Day weekend wielding the report as a warning about the Democrat’s judgment.
The question is who Gary Johnson will hurt the most, Clinton or Trump. But advisers say he’s more receptive to his new leadership team’s more scripted approach, mostly because it’s coincided with a tightening in the public polls he monitors obsessively.
If you change Republican to Democrat then the following paragraph would be about Hillary, not Jeb, which is the real problem that team Clinton faces before the November electorate. “He’s got to sustain this for another couple weeks”.
Much of the Trump ground work is being done by the Republican National Committee – which said Friday that more than 400 new staffers would be sent to swing states – and by state and local party organizations. Seventy six percent of Latinos say it’s more important to vote this year than it was in 2012, and of that group, a bare majority say this is because of the need to resist Trump and his views.
OH is one of the most competitive battleground states, voting twice for Republican George W. Bush and twice for Barack Obama.
Tom Jensen discussed the latest national numbers – as well as the NELP-commissioned North Carolina survey – on WCHL with Aaron Keck. It has voted Republican 15 of the last 16 elections, and Mr. Romney carried the state by a comfortable 53-44 percent margin.
Both campaigns expect enormous audiences for the debates.
At this point, can Clinton turn around all those voters who don’t like or trust her?
Ashley Bell, the Republican Party’s director of African-American political engagement, and Omarosa Manigault, Trump’s director of African-American outreach, did not respond to requests for comment.
Privately, Republican leaders say it will take more than strong debates for their nominee to alter a race that appears to be leaning in Clinton’s favor. I am encouraged that Trump’s immigration plan includes making overstaying a visa a criminal offense, rather than only a civil offense, and implementing a biometric entry and exit system so we can accurately determine who has left the country and who has illegally stayed – measures I have long championed. But they have voted overwhelmingly for Democratic presidential candidates starting in 1936, when Franklin D. Roosevelt got 71 percent of the black vote, and peaking at 96 percent for Barack Obama’s election as the first African-American president in 2008.
Trump spoke at the American Legion’s national convention in Cincinnati a day after Clinton addressed the group, and he also had a rally in Wilmington, in southwest OH, where he hammered the former secretary of State over her use of private emails and her family’s foundation. According to the RealClearPolitics averaging of national polls, Clinton rose dramatically from 43.7 percentage points on July 30 to 47.4 points on August 4, managing a 7 point split between her and Trump.
She is in danger of losing the “hold-your-nose” vote, those who might choose to stay at home or cast a protest vote for Jill Stein, the Green Party candidate. A candidate who lacks conventional qualifications for the job, habitually violates party orthodoxy on policy, and often acts like a buffoon and a bigot nevertheless retains the support of most – but not all – Republican voters.
The race to the White House is winding down with a little more than two months remaining in the campaign.
Vice President Joe Biden gave speeches at union halls in the Democrat-rich Youngstown and Cleveland areas for Clinton and walked door-to-door in a Youngstown neighborhood, greeting and hugging residents after visiting a county fair. Bernie Sanders of Vermont during the Democratic primaries, said Trump has a point about the Democratic Party and black voters.
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Trump will be largely on his own, with the exception of running mate Mike Pence and a few loyal supporters such as New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie and former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani.
