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brooklynite

(94,948 posts)
Mon Oct 24, 2016, 07:28 AM Oct 2016

Politico: Trump’s window is closing

With two weeks to go, Donald Trump’s path to an Election Night win is almost entirely closed.
Hillary Clinton enters the final 15 days of the race safely ahead in states worth more than 270 electoral votes. Indeed, the suspense of this final stretch is less about whether Trump can turn it around than how many down-ballot Republicans he will drag down with him.
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“Trump is done,” said Republican operative Jim Dornan, who advised the New York businessman in the preparatory stages of his campaign last year. “Barring something completely out of the blue, like Hillary being involved in a murder, I don’t see how he wins.”

Short of that, or some sort of Putin Ex Machina, there is little Trump can do to put himself back into contention after five-and-half-months of missteps and missed opportunities.


http://www.politico.com/story/2016/10/clinton-trump-election-countdown-polls-230212
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Politico: Trump’s window is closing (Original Post) brooklynite Oct 2016 OP
On the trail, Trump appears to have largely given up on persuading voters in favor of settling score Liberal_in_LA Oct 2016 #1
With so much early voting going on... titaniumsalute Oct 2016 #2
I hope his short fingers... 3catwoman3 Oct 2016 #3
 

Liberal_in_LA

(44,397 posts)
1. On the trail, Trump appears to have largely given up on persuading voters in favor of settling score
Mon Oct 24, 2016, 07:36 AM
Oct 2016

On the trail, Trump appears to have largely given up on persuading voters in favor of settling scores.

Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2016/10/clinton-trump-election-countdown-polls-230212#ixzz4O0A7pWuk
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