As fresh revelations about Donald Trump’ indecent treatment of women jolt his campaign, his prospects for a win in November 8 election appear moving further apart.
Among the many factors pulling Trump down three stand out: his refusal to come out with honest admissions about his past; Republican leaders’ unending unease about the Trump fallout for their own election odds and for the party; and his unrelenting hateful narrative about minorities and immigrants that contrast starkly with those of her shrewd rival Hillary Clinton, who despite controversies has advanced her campaign successfully.
The Wall Street Journal reported Thursday evening that Trump’s poll numbers are faltering even in battleground states, making it harder for him to win the winning 270 electoral votes.
According to Wall Street Journal/NBC News/Marist polls, Trump lags behind Clinton by 4 percentage points in North Carolina, and was ahead by 1 point in Ohio.
“Both battleground states took on outsize importance for Mr. Trump after his campaign all but conceded Virginia and a Wall Street Journal/NBC News/Marist poll earlier in the week showed him trailing by double digits in Pennsylvania.
“Without winning those two states—and losing in either Ohio or North Carolina—Mr. Trump’s ability to capture the necessary 270 electoral votes appears increasingly unrealistic,” the Journal reported.
Meanwhile, Trump has defended himself against accusations by several women that he groped and kissed them without their consent.
Trump is also holding “a global power structure” of vested interests for a smear campaign against hi,m
“They knew they would throw every lie they could at me and my family and my loved ones. They knew they would stop at nothing to try to stop me. But I never knew, as bad as it would be, I never knew it would be this vile, that it would be this bad, that it would be this vicious,” he said in West Palm Beach, Florida.
Meanwhile, some GOP donors have asked the Republican Natioinal Committee to disavow Trump pointing out that allegations of sexual misconduct would damage the party.
On Thursday, First Lady mounted a blistering criticism of Trump’s sexual behavior. She said dismissing Trump’s degrading remarks against women as “locker-room banter “ amounts to an insult to decent men everywhere.”
“This is not normal.This is not politics as usual. This is disgraceful, it is intolerable, and it doesn’t matter what party you belong to. No woman deserves to be treated this way — none of us deserves this kind of abuse.”
