Trump team says ‘we are behind’ but can still win the race
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Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks during a campaign rally at Regent University, Saturday, Oct. 22, 2016, in Virginia Beach, Va.
WASHINGTON >> Donald Trump’s campaign bluntly acknowledged Sunday that the real estate mogul is trailing Hillary Clinton as the presidential race hurdles toward a close, but insisted he still has a viable path to win the White House.
With barely two weeks left and early voting underway in most of the U.S., Trump’s team said “the race is not over” and pledged to keep campaigning hard — even in states like Virginia and Pennsylvania that polls show are now trending Clinton’s way. Campaign manager Kellyanne Conway laid out a path to the requisite 270 electoral votes that goes through make-or-break states Florida, Iowa, North Carolina and Ohio.
“We are behind. She has some advantages,” Conway said Sunday. Yet she argued that Clinton’s advantages — like a slew of bold-name Democrats campaigning for her — belied her lack of true support. “The current president and first lady, vice president, all are much more popular than she can hope to be.”
Added Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus: “We expect to win.”
Yet even as Clinton appeared to be strengthening her lead, her campaign was careful not to declare premature victory.
“We don’t want to get ahead of our skis here,” said Clinton campaign manager Robby Mook. He said the “battleground states” where both candidates are campaigning hardest “are called that for a reason.”
As part of his closing message, Trump was laying out an ambitious agenda for his first 100 days as president. Yet he undermined his own attempt to strike a high-minded tone on policy issues when he announced in the same speech that he planned to sue the numerous women who have accused him of groping and other unwanted sexual behavior.
“All of these liars will be sued once the election is over,” Trump said Saturday during an event near the Civil War battlefield of Gettysburg. He added: “I look so forward to doing that.”
Asked about Trump’s remarks, Clinton told reporters between rallies Saturday in Pittsburgh and Philadelphia that she was done responding to what her Republican opponent is saying as Election Day nears and would instead focus on helping elect other Democrats.
A day earlier, Clinton attacked Pennsylvania’s Republican senator, Pat Toomey, saying in Pittsburgh that he has refused to “stand up” to Trump as she praised his Democratic challenger, Katie McGinty. Noting Trump’s comments about Mexican immigrants and his attacks on a Muslim-American military family, she said of Toomey: “If he doesn’t have the courage to stand up to Donald Trump after all of this, then can you be sure that he will stand up for you when it counts?”
Clinton rejected Trump’s allegation, offered without evidence, that the dozen or so women who have come forward are being prompted by her campaign or the Democratic National Committee. The accusers emerged after the former reality TV star boasted of kissing women and groping their genitals without their consent.
“These accusations are not coming from our campaign,” Mook said.
On Saturday, an adult film actress said the billionaire kissed her and two other women on the lips “without asking for permission” when they met him after a golf tournament in 2006. Trump has denied that all the other allegations, while insisting some of the women weren’t attractive enough for him to want to pursue.
“He’s been waterboarded by these issues,” said former Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer, a Trump supporter, lamenting the “oppression” of her candidate in the media.
Though mostly a recap of policies he’s proposed before, Trump’s speech included a few new elements, such as a freeze on hiring new federal workers and a two-year mandatory minimum sentence for immigrants who re-enter the U.S. illegally after being deported a first time. In a pledge sure to raise eyebrows on Wall Street, he said he’d block a potential merger between AT&T and media conglomerate Time Warner.
Throughout the GOP primary, Trump was criticized for shying away from detailed policy proposals. But his speech, which aides said would form the core of his closing argument to voters, underscored how the billionaire has gradually compiled a broad — if sometimes vague — policy portfolio that straddles conservative, isolationist and populist orthodoxies.
Mook and Brewer spoke on CNN’s “State of the Union” and Priebus on CBS’ “Face the Nation.” Conway spoke on “Fox News Sunday” and on NBC’s “Meet the Press.”
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Actually Mr. Trump, there’s almost no possibility whatever that you can or will win this race. Mrs. Clinton appears to already have the 270 electoral votes needed to win.
Good luck with your fantasy. You’re a loser.
true,trump is a total shibai artist who has fooled ignorant voters. He is in no way pro-life and he in no way cares about the white working class.
Is Hillary Pro-life? Is Hillary for the “working class”?
This is really funny! Mr. Trump has spent his entire adult lifetime screwing small contractors and sole proprietors out of their proper payment for jobs he hired them to do. Decades of that. And he chooses contractors who he knows don’t have the resources to fight him in court. He’s a loathsome piece of garbage who does not honor his own signature on contracts
Trump supports the working class? Please.
With regard to pro-life, Mrs. Clinton believes in the rule of law that provides choice for women. Period.
She’s for women’s rights, got a problem with that?
Amela, killing unborn children at will. Got a problem with that? Apparently not.
If they’re unborn, under the law they’re not “children”. See how simple that was? So simple that you don’t have to be 浪人 to understand it. Even 農民 can.
I also dislike” people trying to act like Japanese when they are not! ie: “Shibai” .It diminishes your character. Just be yourself allie .
And why would anyone care what you like or dislike?
….same ole Klastri huh?. Surprisingly a person with your vast knowledge and dynamic personality? The Novice Intern Lawyer and Head Cheer Leader Pom,Poms and all, for the Clinton’s, knows Beans about politics. I suggest you take your note pad & dig a little deeper into the polls and you’ll see why Hillary doesn’t quite have it in the bag! Here’s another one,why does Donald Trump attracts by the Thousands to his Rally’s ,I mean it’s like “Room Capacity” with supporters waiting on the outside? And Hillary attracts mere Hundreds!
This is Hillary saying this….” Ask yourself, Why am I not at 50% in the polls?” ) Haaaaaaaaaa! “Fantasy”?
And what is this? Could Donald Trump have a merge with the Independents?? You know how much they (and me) like “Term Limits.”
“Lets Drain the Swamp in Washington”! Go Donald!
You’re wrong about the polls, as you are wrong about everything else you’ve written regarding this campaign. Mr. Trump is going to lose. The only question now is how many other Republicans he’s going to drag down with him. The more, the better. The entire Democratic Party is now working together to deliver a landslide loss to Mr. Trump.
The number of people at rallies means absolutely nothing, as Mr. Sanders and Mr. Romney discovered. Good luck with that fantasy.
Limiting terms in Congress would require an amendment to the Constitution. Good luck with that fantasy too.
The problem with your theory about Independents is that you need to remove from that pool everyone who Mr. Trump forced out of his campaign: Muslims, Latinos, Blacks and women. The arithmetic doesn’t work for him.
Thanks again for supporting Mr. Trump! The swamp draining that you have contributed to is the Republican Party. At your next MENSA meeting, please thank the other folks who supported Mr. Trump!
Klastri is right: Trump is a very dangerous man. Sure, for him it is all an act to build his brand and land him a big TV contract after the election. But for the rest of us, he could do great damage to this country with his game playing.
According to an ABC poll released today she is at 50% and the Chump is struggling at 38.
IRT MoiLee, agree with your post and adding the 28 issues that the Trump/Pence campaign announced as a contract with the American voters, the Trump/Pence campaign will win this Presidential election.
You like bet Trump/Pence not going win?
MoiLee, go Donald go, go home.
Hillary Clinton Resume:
Lying and Attacking Catholics
Lying & making Countries Pay to Play
Lying & Running Secret Arms to Libya
Lying & Threatening to Drone Julian Assange
Lying and Abusing the Clinton Foundation for Profit
Lying and Abusing Power as Secretary of State
Lying & Rigging the DNC Nomination
Lying & having a illegal Private Server
Lying and Deleting Classified / Top Secret E-mails
Lying & Profiting Millions from Russia on Uranium
Lying and Dozen’s of People Dying
Lying & Never Dodging Sniper Fire
Lying & Enabling Her Rapist / Cheating Husband
Lying & Saying Chelsea was jogging around the WTC on 911
Lying on the Benghazi Committee & Letting 4 Americans Die
Lying & Her & her Husband looting the White House
Lying and Profiting from Filegate
Lying and taking $ from Chingate
Lying and taking $ from Pardongate
Lying and taking $ from Travelgate
Lying about Watergate & being Fired
Lying & having Vince Foster Killed
Lying and Defending a Child Rapist
Lying and Concealing Rose Law Firm Billing RECORDS
No More Clinton’s !!!
TRUMP / PENCE 2016!!!
Mrs. Clinton is going to win. Better get used to that fact. Probably by a landslide too.
Oh well!
I hope Hillary wins but not by a landslide. I’d like to see Trump again in 4 years and watch the Republican nominees bash him.
A lot of people like you will need a whole lot of therapy after the Chump gets his butt kicked on November 8.
IRT Corruption: You’ve posted the same tirade in another comments section of a different article. That’s a rather lazy method of expressing your opinion and disrespectful to everyone else. Most of the rest of us, (pro-Trump, pro-Hillary, and others) take the time and thoughtfulness to post original content. I suggest you do the same.
Cpy and paste is really cool except when you do it all day.
Item of interest for the truth seekers…”It’s one thing for the right-wing press to accuse the Clinton foundation of cronyism, corruption, and scandal (especially if the facts, and internal admissions by affiliated employees, confirm as much) – it tends to be generally ignored by the broader, if left-leaning, media. But when the Watergate scandal’s Bob Woodward, associate editor at the liberal Washington Post, says very much the same, Hillary Clinton’s campaign has no choice but to notice. This is precisely what happened today when journalist Bob Woodward told a Fox News Sunday panel that the Clinton Foundation is “corrupt” and that Hillary Clinton has not answered for it.
Here, courtesy of RealClearPolitics, is the transcript of today’s exchange:
CHRIS WALLACE, FOX NEWS SUNDAY: Then there are the allegations about the Clinton Foundation and pay to play, which I asked Secretary Clinton about in the debate, and she turned into an attack on the Trump Foundation.
But, Bob, I want to go back to the conversation I was having with Robby Mook before. When — when you see what seems to be clear evidence that Clinton Foundation donors were being treated differently than non-donors in terms of access, when you see this new — new revelations about the $12 million deal between Hillary Clinton, the foundation, and the king of Morocco, are voters right to be troubled by this?
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BOB WOODWARD, THE WASHINGTON POST: I — yes, it’s a — it’s corrupt. It’s — it’s a scandal. And she didn’t answer your question at all. And she turned to embrace the good work that the Clinton Foundation has done. And she has a case there. But the mixing of speech fees, the Clinton Foundation, and actions by the State Department, which she ran, are all intertwined and it’s corrupt. You know, I mean, you can’t just say it’s unsavory. But there’s no formal investigation going on now, and there are outs that they have.
But the election isn’t going to be decided on that. I mean Karl was making the point about this, I’m not going to observe the result of the election. I mean that’s — that’s absurd. I mean it has no consequence. If Trump loses, they’re not going to let him in the White House. He’s not going to have a transition team. And — and to focus on that, I think, is wrong. I think the issue is, what’s going to be the aftermath of this campaign.
So it’s corrupt, it’s a scandal, and… it will have no consequences at all. It’s time to look up the latest definition of Banana republic again.”
QED, not?
Trump is reduced to irrelevance. Except, that is, for the Republicans because he is diamantling the already fragmented party.
Release the kracken! I mean all his emails then let’s see who’s the jerk around here. I dare him to sue his accusers but he’s going to chicken little out.
Just like we stacked the deck against Bernie, we have stacked the deck against you, Donald. Do we lie and cheat to retain power? Absolutely! And there isn’t a single thing you can do about it! Hahahaha! By the way my kids new a colllege education and I’m all for raising any and all taxes to anyone above the poverty line. I’d like to personally thank all of you tax payers for supporting me.
Get over it. Bernie Sanders said he lost fair and square and strongly supports Hillary Clinton.
Bernie lied.
Looks like the pro Chump commenters are becoming extinct.
Bernie lied? How dare you and Trump didn’t?
Trump tells an untruth every 3 minutes. He just said on Fox News that he likes sarge and will fight for him. LIAR!!!
You may as well go up to the Pali Lookout and shout at the wind.
It would be interesting to post the last 200 AP photos of both Trump and Hillary. Do you believe there just might be a little bias from the media?
Mr. Trump says and does things that suggest he is mentally ill. All the time. Like yesterday, when he started his “healing and 100 days” speech with lies about suing women who have come forward regarding his lifetime of sexual assault. He is pathologically unable to let go of any perceived slight against his greatness. He’s obviously profoundly ill, and that’s newsworthy.
Would you suggest that not be reported? It sounds like that would be the only way to make things “fair” to you.
Of course, it’s your practice to simply make up things out of thin air and write them down here, so I’m not sure that you are the right person to criticize journalists.
Of course the media is bias. If you had a choice to cover a story about Trump’s claim that Ted Cruz’s father was part of the JFK assassination, or that John McCain was not a war hero because he was captured, or he knows more about ISIS than all the generals vs. covering Hillary’s tax policy and trade policy, what would you cover? Trump used the media as free advertising. He admitted it so do not complain the media is bias.
A German proverb says, ” better an empty purse than an empty head!” — and from a service station owner in Haleiwa — ” it’s best to put one’s brain in gear before one’s mouth in action”
wishful thinking. in denial and mostly stupid. he is toast just like djou.
The theme song to the old TV show “Alice” comes to mind… “going through life with blinders on, it’s tough to see”
Donald Trump is crazy but we still can win this election!
As much as a snowball has in hell.
Who exactly are “we”? The uneducated? The racist? the low-income through their own fault. I Saw you bruddha. You were in my classroom at the very back with your sunglasses on and your hat turned backwards. You were too cool to learn. I tried to reach you but you ran every time. Now you hope that a comb-over savior can rescue you? Not likely. Get with it you are responsible for your own success and failure.
Trump is successful and all the above are with him. Lock up the female felon and set us free. The trap is set. Trump 2016
sarge you getting your cocaine from Trump?
Naw, t’other way round.
Trump is a racist and sexual predator. He doesn’t pay his fair share of taxes and screwed thousands of contractors, suppliers and employees by filing for bankruptcies. Other than that he is a great guy.
Honoring my fellow veterans who paid the ultimate sacrifice for my freedom to participate in a free election. Today I filled out my absentee ballot and cast my vote for the next POTUS. Proud to be American.
Drumpf has no coherent policy platform. He’s the ultimate political weathervane, playing to the crowd at every stop, telling them what he thinks they want to hear. What an opportunist. But does he really intend to stick with his statements? Sure, he will — right up until his next speech. And then, one more time, he’ll say anything to get that applause and cheap adulation. What a narcissist.
Notice that Trump TEAM says “we are behind,” not Trump himself. He still thinks he’s ahead because the National Enquirer poll says so, and he still thinks he’s a “10.”
It’d be funny—and not all that surprising—if Trump fired Kellyanne Conway for admitting they’re behind. “YOU’RE FIRED!”, he’ll say. LOLOL!!!
Conway’s ruing the day she signed on with Drumpf. She’s trying hard to create some daylight between the two of them. Why? Simple. She wants to have another gig and another paycheck at some point down the road after Drumpf’s humiliating drubbing.
She’d probably have a better chance of that if he fired her and then stiffed her like he’s done to so many before her. Soon, that distinction will be a badge of honor.