With Days To Go, Clinton Leads In Campaign Cash

The poll underscores how widespread concerns about Clinton make it hard for her to expand beyond a single-digit edge over Trump, as well as Trump’s continuing challenges in appealing beyond a core base of supporters.

A New York Times/Siena phone poll of 792 likely voters, which was conducted from October 25 -27 and released Sunday, shows Trump up by 4 points over Clinton, 46 percent to 42 percent. In fact, the billionaire Republican needs a dramatic rebound in states where the Democratic nominee appears to have the upper hand.

Some Democrats worry Clinton’s biggest risk is that her voters think she has the presidency in the bag and will fail to show up to vote.

Tom Moran of Fenton donned a giant Trump head that he and fellow MI activists have taken around the country.

– I have apologized for using a private email that imperiled our national security, and I have not broken any laws – which explains why I did everything possible to obstruct the investigation of the State Department inspector general, and why my team destroyed my devices with a hammer and bleached the disks clean, and why I and all my colleagues lawyered up when confronted by the FBI. While campaigning in OH, he criticized Clinton for being too tough on Vladimir Putin, another surprisingly favorable comment from Trump about the Russian leader. That analysis is based on preference polling, recent electoral history, demographic trends and campaign priorities such as advertising, travel and on-the-ground staff. “If the Clintons were willing to play this fast and loose with their enterprise when they weren’t in the White House, just imagine what they’ll do in the Oval Office”. Trump probably can’t win if he loses either.

“I’ve heard some people don’t want to put Trump signs in their yards”, she said.

That lead began shrinking this week as Trump gained with Republicans. Without that trio, Trump has no platform to mount what even then would be a long shot bid for the White House.

Likewise, Democrats are doing better than expected in Florida, as Politico reported this week, and they have a strong lead in North Carolina. That’s a much faster rate of catch-up than in 2012 and 2008, when Barack Obama won the state.

A win in North Carolina, and Florida and OH, too, still isn’t enough to get Trump to 270. An Iowa State University report this month said very few family farms would be subject to estate tax liability if Clinton’s proposal is enacted.

Campaign volunteer James Stafford says he thinks Trump’s position on immigration will be what wins over Arizonans.

The GOP’s last serious effort to carry California in a presidential campaign was in 2000, when George W. Bush and Republicans spent more than $15 million in the state and lost to then-Vice President Al Gore by 12 points. “Someone who things belittling and objectifying women make him a bigger man”.

“I’m a throw-the-bums out guy”, said Dale, a self-employed consultant running for the Monroe Public Schools board. “He’s going to lose”.

Clinton’s flying campaign headquarters, though, kept the nominee, her top aides and the press cordoned off from the outside world.

This is an important point to remember when reading early voting numbers: Even a big lead now doesn’t mean a big win on November 8.

Obama also warned supporters to remain engaged, accusing Republicans of actively seeking to suppress turnout by making the election “so dirty and ugly that we don’t want any part of it”.

Among them Nikki Haley, the Desi governor of SC, who drew the ire of Trump during the party primaries after endorsing Marco Rubio.

But perhaps the most surprising development has been increasingly competitive signs in Texas. More than 616,000 ballots have been cast and Democrats are about even with Republicans, 37 per cent to 38 per cent.

The Clinton campaign describes both North Carolina and Florida as “checkmate” states. And within that group, only about a third say they will vote for him, with about a third supporting Clinton and the remainder supporting third party candidates.

Despite Trump’s popularity in rural Oklahoma, Senate Democrats said they remain optimistic they could knock off two Republican incumbents in southeast Oklahoma, a longtime stronghold for Democrats. “Donald Trump says he can still win and he is right”.