Hope for Trump: GOP winning registration race in key states

In Pennsylvania, Florida, Iowa and North Carolina, more new voters identify as Republicans.

For weeks, Donald Trump has watched his poll standing in battleground states plummet, from Pennsylvania, where his strength among Rust Belt families was supposed to turn a blue state competitive, to North Carolina, where Democrats had been making inroads in recent elections, to the ultimate battleground of them all: Florida.

Trump’s poll numbers remain dire, but he can point to at least one ray of hope for a turnaround: Republicans have continued gaining ground in recent months in voter registration in Florida, Pennsylvania, North Carolina and Iowa, while the late surge in Democratic registrations relative to Republican registrations that occurred in battleground states during the final months of the 2012 election had not been replicated in numbers released in early August.

“The atmospherics of voter registration trends in those states do not point to a strong Democratic year, so that’s one negative the Trump campaign does not have to deal with at this point,” said Louisiana pollster John Couvillon, who added that spikes in registration can add a point or two to a candidate’s vote share in a close race. “The voter registration data I’m seeing does not support the idea of a surge in Democratic voter enthusiasm.”

“The voter registration data I’m seeing does not support the idea of a surge in Democratic voter enthusiasm.”

Look at the anemic “rallies” that Clinton has. She struggles just to get a few hundred to 1,000 people to show up. Trump can easily get 5, 10, 15 or even 20,000 to show up at his events.

They’ll do it the Democrat way, bringing in tens of thousands of phones registrations at the last minute, so there isn’t time to verify them. On Election Day stuff the ballot boxes with “provisional votes.” If any are questioned, they can claim they were registered. In most states, provisional are counted.

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Selected Trump articles on FR, from 10:30 PM yesterday to 2:00 PM EDT today, 8/22/16:
Hope for Trump: GOP winning registration race in key states –Politico
Rudy Giuliani Full Interview, Fox & Friends (8/22/2016) (Rico) (video)
One-third of US won't have choice between Obamacare plans in 2017 –CNBC
Trump Tweets Video of Hillary Calling Blacks “Super-Predators” (video)
Hillary Already Picking Cabinet, 50 Percent Women –NewsMax
Hillary Clinton’s Campaign Is in Serious Trouble and May Never Recover –GP
Chaffetz: Clinton Interview Notes Provided by FBI Are ‘Embarrassing’ –Townhall
Dear FRiends, We need your continuing support to keep FR going strong. –Jim Robinson
Some voting happens well before Election Day –AP
Obama snubs Hillary fundraisers on Martha’s Vineyard –Thomas Lifson
Commentary: Evidence points to another Snowden at the NSA –Reuters
FBI uncovered tens of thousands more documents in Clinton email probe –WaPo
STATEMENT ON CLINTON FOUNDATION: SHUT IT DOWN –Donald J. Trump FB
La. Gov & former Senator (both Dems) praise Trump for ‘shining spotlight’ on flood –CFP
Administration Nears Syrian Refugee Goal: 9,077 Muslims; 47 Christians –CNS
USC Dornsife / LA Times Presidential Election Poll [T 44.6, C 43.5] –USC
Clinton Workers Caught Committing Voter Fraud In Las Vegas (video)
Young writers explore common ground: Muslims and Latinos [barf] –OCRegister
That's "D"..."D as in Donald" (vanity)
DONALD TRUMP/MIKE PENCE PRAYER VIGIL 8/22/16 –FR
NYT Tech Columnist Calls on Google to Hide Hillary Health Info –Patrick Howley
Welfare Jihad: Islamist Calls Taxpayers "Slaves", Encourages Muslims to Go on Welfare –Daniel Greenfield
Trump threatens to 'tell the real story' about Morning Joe 'clowns' –Nick Gass
Police “Infuriated” Top Cop Sold out to Hillary [NYC: Bill Bratton] –IndepSentinel
Think black people aren't voting for Trump? Guess again –Philly.com
Emails Prove Real Leader of Democrat Party is George Soros –FrdmOutpost
Smoking Gun Email PROVES Hillary Left Benghazi Victims to Die –Sundance
If You Only Read NYT and WaPo, You’ve No Idea the Soros Leak Happened –DailyCaller
Leaked Soros Docs: Blacks Worried Children Receiving Less Attention than Refugees –DailyCaller
New Abedin Emails: Clinton State Dept Gave Special Access to Top Clinton Foundation Donors –JW
Huma Abedin was working as ASSISTANT EDITOR at her mother's radical Muslim journal when it blamed America for 9/11 –DM
Clinton Spox Denies Huma Abedin Edited Islamic Magazine –Daniel Greenfield
Clinton Campaign Manager Suggests Trump Is 'Puppet' for the Kremlin –ABC
Clintons Make Their Move? – Ninja Prowler Escapes Security at Ecuadorian Embassy [Assange asylum] –Sundance
Colin Powell Says Hillary's People ‘Trying to Pin' Email Scandal on Him –People

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