Donald Trump Makes a Push in Florida

Wall Street Journal ^ | OCTOBER 23, 2016 | BY BETH REINHARD AND JANET HOOK

[Innovative]

As Donald Trump’s path to the presidency appears to narrow, the GOP nominee on Sunday hunkered down in Florida, one of a handful of swing states that polls suggest remain competitive.

Mr. Trump is slated to headline five rallies over three days in the nation’s largest battleground, where more than a million voters have already mailed in ballots. In-person early voting begins Monday.

At a rally Sunday in the heavily Republican retirement community of Naples, Mr. Trump said his campaign in Florida looks “phenomenal.” He also said polls around the country are underestimating his support among women. “We are going to win the great state of Florida and we are going to win back the White House,” Mr. Trump said in a county where Republicans outnumber Democrats by a 2-to-1 ratio. “There is the same enthusiasm all over the country. They’ve never seen anything like it.”

[Innovative]

I hope the enthusiasm holds and translates into people actually getting out and casting a vote for Trump.

[Scott from the Left Coast]

We are going to learn a lot in this election. The impact of social media, whether there is a silent majority (monster vote), if the State Controlled Media is as powerful as the establishment thinks it is, if European descent whites have become the new untouchables in America, if minorities and single women...and immigrants of all kinds...are the new power in the country, if TV ads and the air war still are dominant means of mass communication. All these things and plenty more will be proven or disproven.

[Albion Wilde]

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Selected Trump articles on FR, from 5:00pm to 11:15pm EDT, 10/23/16:
Donald Trump Makes a Push in Florida –WSJ
How to Legally Vote More Than Once –Scott Adams (Dilbert)
LEAK: Hillary Had Gun Control Supporters Planted In Town Hall Audience –Breitbart
House Republicans must preserve the motion to vacate the chair –WaEx
Priebus: Hillary Is Going to Lose, ‘She’s Too Risky for This Country’ –Breitbart
Trump Makes Subtle, Unexpected Push for Down-Ballot Republicans –NBC
YouGov Poll: Undecided and 3rd-Party Voters Liked Trump in 3rd Debate –John Hayward
WikiLeaks poisons Hillary’s relationship with left –Politico
Sunday Night Roundtable! (10/23) "Trumps Gettysburg Address" –Spreaker.com
At Conference for Coastal Elites, Silicon Valley Talks Trump –BuzzFeed
Wikileaks: Have You Been Compromised? Rumors Swirl as Election Approaches –GotNews
Wrecked by immigration: Do-gooding Swedes turn against migrants amid violence –UKExpress
How one drug cartel banked its cash in New York City –AP
In 2008 Podesta discussed executive orders to be reversed –Wikileaks
Hugh Fitzgerald: Hillary, George Washington, and Islam –JihadWatch
CBS: 24 Percent of FL Clinton Supporters Would Consider Voting Trump to ‘Shake Up Political System –Katie McHugh
Hillary Clinton is quietly reaching out to Republicans –CNN
Civil rights hero from 60s takes criticism as Trump backer –WTOP
Rigged elections common Democrat practice –WikiLeaks

[867V309]

All these things and plenty more will be proven or disproven.

The biggest is the future of the Republican party.

Win or lose, Trump destroyed the GOPe. The BUSH/RYAN/ROMNEY/MCCANE/FOXNEWS fake conservative cabal is dead. Jeb!s 150M embarrassment proved that.

[phoneman08]

It’s smart to concentrate on Florida right when in person early voting starts.

[Crimson Elephant]

I feel very confident Trump will win Ohio, iowa, NC, and FL. The idea that Arizona and Georgia are battlegrounds is crazy.

This with the usual GOP states gets Trump to 258. So he has to cobble together 12 more delegates.

CO 9
NH 4
Maine 3 plus 1
NV 6
WI 10
PA 20
VA 13

I personally think IF Trump wins PA and/or WI its a landslide anyway.

So the “thread the needle strategy” he needs 12 from CO, NH, ME, NV

I can’t figure out VA. I lean toward it is lost as a blue state, but I do think the idea that rural Virginians might show up in droves and maybe some Dems sit home. So not impossible.

That gives you this map
http://www.270towin.com/maps/QxgV2

[Ray76]

South Fl, Tampa, Orlando

[cherry]

if Trump loses, there will be no national pub party....it's clear that the oligharchy controls it...

perhaps they control the house and senate too...

we might have a chance in states and counties...

if pub states and legislatures would do their duty and make voting a secure and honest undertaking, it'll be a start...

[DaxtonBrown]

If Trump’s path is narrowing, isn’t Hillary’s as well?

[MrChips]

Who would lead a “new” Repub party? No milquetoast is going to generate any excitement. It would have to be someone from outside Washington, maybe a governor. But, I can’t think of one. The party may just cease to exist, at least on a competitive level.

[heights]

Bezo’s Propaganda Rag

[beethovenfan]

The WSJ is anti-Trump, especially the guy that Shemp Smith frequently interviews on Fox, and also Peggy Noonan.

[weston]

If Trump loses, I and my whole family have plans to re register as independents. We will never again be Republican.

[Impala64ssa]

Gonna see him at the Fairgrounds in Tampa tomorrow night

[jennychase]

NJ is also possible.

[mkleesma]

Day by day I grow more confident, and I don’t know why.
But I feel deep down, that Mr. Trump will win.

[Mad Dawgg]

I will be pleasantly surprised if there is indeed a "Monster Vote" but I am getting flashbacks to 2008 and 2012 when many on this very site told me with great conviction that Ohio would never go Blue and vote for Obama.

I hope my spidey senses are wrong but I keep telling people that my area in Ohio that used to be hardcore Red is slowly turning to Blue because there are no jobs so more and more people around here on going on the government dole permanently and as such they are voting for the people promising them more government goodies.

[Scott from the Left Coast]

Yeah, I have no idea if a monster vote will materialize. Maybe the country has been permantly crippled and is in terminal decline. I know the desire for massive open immigration is to try and prop up the failing government entitlements...and I know the desire of manufacturers to go overseas or to Mexico and Central America is because up until about 20 years ago American salary levels were considered too high for American companies to be competitive. And I know all this is happening because our elected staff want to keep making millions hand over fist by selling policy to the best bidders.

But there’s not a whole lot else that I know for certain about this election.

[lewislynn]

The WSJ is anti-Trump,...

Well duh. It's owner also owns anti-Trump FAUX.

[Fai Mao]

I’ve been raked over the coals by New Yorkers who insist that Trump will take New York.

We’ll see. If Trump takes New York. PIAPS loses