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Trump rejects 'phony' polls, insists 'we are winning'

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Trump rejects 'phony' polls, insists 'we are winning'

By STEVE PEOPLES and JONATHAN LEMIRE

 

ST. AUGUSTINE, Fla. (AP) — A defiant Donald Trump blamed his campaign struggles on "phony polls" from the "disgusting" media on Monday, fighting to energize his most loyal supporters as his path to the presidency shrinks.

 

With just 14 days until the election, the Republican nominee campaigned in battleground Florida as his team conceded publicly as well as privately that crucial Pennsylvania may be slipping away to Democrat Hillary Clinton. That would leave him only a razor-thin pathway to the 270 electoral votes needed to win the White House on Nov. 8.

 

Despite continued difficulties with women and minorities, Trump refuses to soften his message in the campaign's final days to broaden his coalition. Yet he offered an optimistic front in the midst of a three-day tour through Florida as thousands began voting there in person.

 

"I believe we're actually winning," Trump declared during a round table discussion with farmers gathered next to a local pumpkin patch.

 

A day after suggesting the First Amendment to the Constitution may give journalists too much freedom, he insisted that the media are promoting biased polls to discourage his supporters from voting.

 

"The media isn't just against me. They're against all of you," Trump told cheering supporters later in St. Augustine. "They're against what we represent."

 

In more bad news for Trump, a new poll shows young voters turning to Clinton now that the race has settled down to two main candidates. Clinton now leads among likely voters 18 to 30 years in age by 60 percent to 19 percent, according to a new GenForward survey.

 

Young black voters already were solidly in her corner, and now young whites are moving her way, according to the survey by the Black Youth Project at the University of Chicago with the Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research.

 

With Trump on the defensive, Democrat Clinton worked to slam the door on his candidacy in swing state New Hampshire while eyeing a possible Democratic majority in the Senate.

 

The former secretary of state campaigned alongside New Hampshire Gov. Maggie Hassan, who is running for the Senate, and Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren, who was merciless as she seized on recent revelations of Trump's predatory sexual language and several allegations of sexual assault.

 

"He thinks that because he has a mouth full of Tic Tacs, he can force himself on any woman within groping distance," Warren charged. "I've got news for you Donald: Women have had it with guys like you."

 

Trump has denied all of a recent allegations, and he addressed a new one Monday in an interview with WGIR radio in New Hampshire.

 

He called the accusations "total fiction" and lashed out at former adult film performer Jessica Drake, who said Saturday that he had grabbed and kissed her without permission and offered her money to visit his hotel room a decade ago.

 

"One said, 'He grabbed me on the arm.' And she's a porn star," Trump said. He added, "Oh, I'm sure she's never been grabbed before."

With Election Day two weeks away, Trump's electoral map looks bleak.

 

The Republican National Committee ignored him altogether in mailers to New Hampshire voters set to be distributed later this week, according to material obtained by The Associated Press. The mail focuses instead on Clinton's credibility, featuring a picture of her and former President Bill Clinton and the words, "No More of The Lying Clintons."

 

Trump's campaign manager Kellyanne Conway outlined a path to 270 electoral votes on Sunday that banks on victories in Florida, Ohio, Iowa and North Carolina along with New Hampshire and Maine's 2nd Congressional District. Assuming Trump wins all of those — and he currently trails in some — he would earn the exact number of electoral votes needed to win the presidency and no more.

 

Noticeably absent from the list was Pennsylvania, a state that a top adviser privately conceded was slipping away despite Trump's aggressive courtship of the state's white working-class voters. The adviser spoke on the condition of anonymity to share internal discussions.

 

Florida was largely the focus on Monday as in-person early voting began across 50 counties, including the state's largest: Broward, Duval, Hillsborough, Miami-Dade, Orange and Palm Beach. Remaining counties will start in the coming week.

 

Early voting by mail has been underway for weeks. Nearly 1.2 million voters in Florida have already mailed in ballots.

 

Clinton plans to visit Tuesday and Wednesday, while her running mate, Virginia Gov. Tim Kaine, was making two Florida appearances on Monday. He took a shot at Florida Republican Sen. Marco Rubio in the first, a reminder that Clinton's team is fighting to retake a Senate majority.

 

Kaine noted that Rubio previously called Trump a dangerous "con artist," though the senator currently supports him.

 

Democrats would take the Senate majority if they pick up four seats and Clinton wins the White House.

 

Trump's difficulties are evident in this week's travel plans, which include a possible stop in Arizona. A Democratic presidential candidate hasn't won there in 20 years, yet polls show Trump in a close race.

 

Republicans look worse in New Hampshire, a state Trump must win in the scenario his campaign manager outlined.

 

"Women voters can sway elections here," said Republican strategist Ryan Williams. "And he's doing nothing to reach out to them."

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Peoples reported from Washington. AP writers Ken Thomas in Manchester, New Hampshire, Kathleen Ronayne in Miami, Tom Beaumont in Des Moines, Iowa, Nicholas Riccardi in Denver and Laurie Kellman and Emily Swanson in Washington contributed.

 
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The only polls he does not find phony are the ones he wins.

There is only one poll that's important and it takes place November 8, unfortunately unless Trump wins that poll he will insist it also a phony poll.

 

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Well, according to the last debate, polls taken outside of Cracker Barrels show DT winning. Oh wait, that was the SNL spoof of the debate. Never mind.

 

Oh, and this comment from Kellyanne. Maybe she is not in sync with DT.

"We are behind. She has some advantages," Kellyanne Conway said on NBC's "Meet the Press."

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16 minutes ago, joecoolfrog said:

You should be fine , he will be gone soon !

I don't think he will be gone easily or quietly.   Maybe it will be guys in white coats dragging him away kicking and screaming.   

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16 minutes ago, Credo said:

I don't think he will be gone easily or quietly.   Maybe it will be guys in white coats dragging him away kicking and screaming.   

That loud mouth blow hard will not be gone just because he gets crushed in the election. Sarah Pailin is still around spewing her BS to anyone who will listen. Trump will do the same in a bid to get a new reality show or worse yet, his own BS channel.

 

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2 hours ago, Boon Mee said:

Of course 99% of these polls are phony - Democrats are oversampled by a wide margin...:sleep:

 

MSM is against you. The polls are against you. The women are against you. The coloreds are against you. The mexicans are against you. The rapists are against you. The liberals are against you. The republicans are against you. Anyone with a brain is against you. 

 

Is there no shelter from the storm? 

 

 

 

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3 hours ago, Boon Mee said:

Of course 99% of these polls are phony - Democrats are oversampled by a wide margin...:sleep:

Yeah, you poor republicans are so discriminated against--the dems control the media, the judiciary, the electoral system and of course, the establishment--and the worst part, you believe that bull and can't conceive the majority of Americans simply do not want Trump

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8 minutes ago, Thaidream said:

Donld Trump is undoubtedly the worst candidate ever to run for the Presidency of the US. He will soon be sent to the scrap heap of history. Good riddance!!!

That is likely; however, that leaves us with Hillary; time to reflect on our own stupidity

 

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1 hour ago, Credo said:

I don't think he will be gone easily or quietly.   Maybe it will be guys in white coats dragging him away kicking and screaming.   

 

Oh, I think he has opened himself up to a significant backlash. The Trump name has no value in many foreign countries and he is under pressure  in respect to his licensing and management arrangements. After the election, I expect we will see his bogus "university" fraud litigation  beoming "UGE".  The fact that he has not paid taxes in 20 years or so, is going to create some issues as well.

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Donald only agrees with those polls (almost all non-scientific, internet, and/or far right polls) that show him with a lead.   Kinda like Bob Dole use to say that he only agreed with polls that showed him ahead.  

 

Donald is a nutcase.  He's sure making this an easy win for Hillary....and it will be a electoral college land side for Hillary.

 

The Tea Party hijacked the Republican party in the 2008 and 2012 elections....the Trumpsters did the hijacking for the 2016.  

 

Wonder what "no comprising" group will hijack the GOP for the 2020 election?...maybe Ted Cruz and his Evangelist army?

 

P.S. Durn shame both parties couldn't have come up with some good nominees.

 

 

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56 minutes ago, smotherb said:

That is likely; however, that leaves us with Hillary; time to reflect on our own stupidity

 

I could not agree more.

As much as I find Trump disturbing, What I find infinitely more disturbing are the millions of stupid people who believe him.

He is seventy years old ,one way or an other Trump will go away,the millions that follow him will remain, perfect tools for other would be Trumps.

Has anyone seen the movie Idiocracy?

 

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2 hours ago, Pinot said:

 

MSM is against you. The polls are against you. The women are against you. The coloreds are against you. The mexicans are against you. The rapists are against you. The liberals are against you. The republicans are against you. Anyone with a brain is against you. 

 

Is there no shelter from the storm? 

 

 

 

Very cool. Cheers for that pleasant removal.

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For every sh@t sport the players have to show their (new) club a document about their physical health.

 

Now my question:

Why is there no requirement that all candidates for the job of the mightiest man in the world, the USA president, must show a document from independent university doctors about

  • her/his mental health for the job, i.e. No dementia

  • her/his IQ -  not below 70

  • at least a minimum of moral helth

???.

 

Problem solved, especially concerning Trump.

 

Missing all the categories mentioned above. Remember Trump's "7-11", "November 28" - election day, "Belgium = nice city", endless slurs and lies, agressiv and violating behaviour etc., etc. …. (read New York Times).

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6 hours ago, Boon Mee said:

Of course 99% of these polls are phony - Democrats are oversampled by a wide margin...:sleep:

Hypocrites!

trump poo and trumpists LOVE the polls when they showed he was winning, which he USED to be for the nomination.

Now they're rigged. 

Send the madman back to his tower.

The USA is sick and tired of this farce.

Elect the ADULT -- Hillary Clinton. 

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