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Mr. Trump is so disliked among college-educated voters, especially white women, that he is at risk of losing by double digits in several districts that the 2012 Republican nominee, Mitt Romney, carried comfortably. Crooked Hillary's brainpower is highly overrated.Probably why her decision making is so bad or, as stated by Bernie S, she has BAD JUDGEMENT Keep calling an obviously intelligent woman dumb, Donald.
Much has been made of Donald Trump's problems with a few voting groups -- female voters, blacks and Hispanics, and young voters, in particular. And, to be sure, they are all problems.
Donald Trump's campaign is planning its biggest ad buy to date - upward of $10 million on commercials airing over the next week or so. The campaign is expects the ads to air as soon as Monday in nine swing states: Ohio, Pennsylvania, North Carolina and Florida, where the campaign has already been on the air, along with New Hampshire, Virginia, Iowa, Colorado and Nevada.
Much has been made of Donald Trump's problems with a few voting groups - female voters, blacks and Hispanics, and young voters, in particular. And, to be sure, they are all problems.
GOP consultant Katie Packer stunned MSNBC host Chris Hayes on Friday with her attempt to explain the phenomenon of "white flight" in her native Detroit. "Absolutely, it is a phenomenon - I'm speaking specifically to Detroit, where the Democrat mayor, Coleman Young, basically asked the white people of the city of Detroit to leave," said Packer, who was Mitt Romney's deputy campaign manager in 2012.
Ron Gidwitz, Dan Webb and William Kunkler are veteran Republicans - and friends - from Chicago's political money circuit. They raised buckets of cash for Mitt Romney four years ago.
Stories about the ramshackle nature of the Trump campaign are abundant. A recent article called Donald Trump's organization "more concert tour than presidential campaign."
The following is an exclusive excerpt from conservative columnist and 11-time New York Times bestselling author Ann Coulter's upcoming book, Everything that seems like a disability with Trump always turns out to be an advantage. If we were in the laboratory, designing the perfect presidential candidate, it's unlikely we would have produced a tasteless, publicity-seeking, coarse, billionaire, reality TV star.
Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton leads Republican rival Donald Trump by 8 percentage points among likely voters, according to a Reuters/Ipsos opinion poll released on Friday. The Aug. 14-18 survey showed 42 percent of Americans supported Clinton ahead of the Nov. 8 general election.
Democratic mega-donors, including George Soros and Tom Steyer, are putting millions of dollars into efforts to put Hillary Clinton in the White House and win control of the Senate. Their investment comes as Republicans worry about not only the chances of their nominee Donald Trump, but also his effect on down-ballot races.
Donald Trump's support among white men, the linchpin of his presidential campaign, is showing surprising signs of weakness that could foreclose his only remaining path to victory in November. If not reversed, the trend could materialize into one of the most unanticipated developments of the 2016 presidential campaign: That Hillary Clinton, the first woman at the head a major party ticket and a divisive figure unpopular with many men, ends up narrowing the gender gap that has been a constant of American presidential elections for decades.
Four years ago in the race for President, Republicans were complaining about polls that were "skewed" against Mitt Romney, much as many in the GOP are arguing now that polls are biased against Donald Trump in 2016, as Trump supporters charge pollsters and the media are out to stop their candidate. The answer - Mitt Romney and the Republicans - as most polls actually underestimated the support for President Obama, both nationally and in a number of states.
The Hillary Clinton campaign released the 2015 joint federal income tax return filed by Mrs. Clinton and her ex-President husband Bill this week. Among other things, the Clintons reported total income of over $10.7 million, incurred income and self-employment taxes of over $3.6 million, and deducted $1 million for a charitable contribution to the Clinton Foundation.
Republican National Committee officials have reportedly begun to consider the option of cutting funding to Donald Trump's campaign if he is unable to turn his poll numbers around by October. Members have privately held discussions about how the committee has done more for Trump's campaign than that of Mitt Romney, as the political newcomer was more reliant on the RNC infrastructure.
It was June 22, and Gary Johnson was on a roll. Four years earlier, following a calamitous bid for the Republican nomination, the former New Mexico governor had garnered 1 percent of the national vote against Barack Obama and Mitt Romney as the Libertarian candidate.
Publicly, Republican Party officials continue to stand by Donald Trump. Privately, at the highest levels, party leaders have started talking about cutting off support to Trump in October and redirecting cash to saving endangered congressional majorities.
TV] MIKE: TODAY, ON "UPFRONT." DEMOCRATIC CANDIDATE FOR SENATE RUSS FEINGOLD, DOES DONALD TRUMP AT THE TOP OF THE TICKET HELP FEINGOLD? I WILL ASK HIM.
As he skips from one gaffe to the next, GOP leaders in Washington and in the most competitive states have begun openly contemplating turning their backs on their party's presidential nominee to prevent what they fear will be wide-scale Republican losses on Election Day. Back in 1996, the party largely gave up on nominee Bob Dole once it became clear he had little chance of winning, so it's not without precedent.