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Trump campaign says it's "behind," as new poll shows him down double digits
CBS NEWS ^ | October 23, 2016 | REENA FLORES

Posted on 10/23/2016 1:05:37 PM PDT by Bratch

In the final sprint of the general election season, Donald Trump’s presidential campaign is acknowledging that it’s playing catch-up to Hillary Clinton, just as a new national poll shows the Republican nominee trailing his opponent by double digits.

When asked on NBC News how she saw the state of the race, Kellyanne Conway, Trump’s campaign manager, replied that “We are behind.”

“She has some advantages, like $66 million in ad buys just in the month of September, thereby doubling her ad buys from August,” Conway pointed out. “Now, most of those ads are negative against Donald Trump, classic politics, personal destruction...kind of ads. And that she has tremendous advantages.”

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TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2016polls; allislost; cbs; context; kellyanneconway; polls; trump
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To: Thickman

Or to many Debbie Downers on FR.


81 posted on 10/23/2016 2:00:59 PM PDT by Biggirl ("One Lord, one faith, one baptism" - Ephesians 4:5)
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To: Finalapproach29er

It’s overrated. Though I’ve seen and heard quite a few ads in FL.


82 posted on 10/23/2016 2:05:35 PM PDT by ripnbang ("An armed man is a citizen, an unarmed man a subject)
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To: lilypad
From my point of view, I don't care what the polls say: he can be ahead, he can be behind, they can say that he's ahead, behind, or tied. I don't care.

On election day, I'm going out to vote for Donald Trump. Whether the polls are right or wrong, I don't care.

83 posted on 10/23/2016 2:05:47 PM PDT by BlueLancer ("If the present tries to sit in judgment on the past, it will lose the future." Winston Churchill)
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To: tomkat

CBS, Constant Bull Shit.


84 posted on 10/23/2016 2:06:05 PM PDT by jmacusa ("Dats all I can stands 'cuz I can't stands no more!''-- Popeye The Sailorman.)
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To: Finalapproach29er

This should make you feel better....

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3483976/posts


85 posted on 10/23/2016 2:07:23 PM PDT by ripnbang ("An armed man is a citizen, an unarmed man a subject)
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To: Bratch

Real winners play like they are losing until the final seconds tick off the clock...
So much more critcal in real life for the Presidency than it ever was in games!


86 posted on 10/23/2016 2:17:35 PM PDT by AzNASCARfan
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To: Bratch; cherry; riri; arl295; dsm69; ROCKLOBSTER
Don't panic. I feel certain Trump has read The Art Of War. He knows how to manipulate the enemy and motivate his supporters.

"Appear weak when you are strong, and strong when you are weak.”
― Sun Tzu, The Art of War

87 posted on 10/23/2016 2:18:15 PM PDT by Jed Eckert (Trump/Pence ***Make America Great Again***)
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To: AzNASCARfan

Not to mention more dimwits don’t bother to vote because its in the bag.


88 posted on 10/23/2016 2:19:33 PM PDT by Leep (Just say no to half dead hillary and wrong lane kaine!)
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To: jmacusa
CBS, Constant Bull Shit.

Perfect !

89 posted on 10/23/2016 2:28:53 PM PDT by tomkat
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To: jetson

The fact that two of the three debates broke all-time records for viewership points to the degree of interest.
#1: 84 million
#2: 64 million
#3: 72 million


90 posted on 10/23/2016 2:31:12 PM PDT by Nero Germanicus
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To: eekitsagreek

I don’t know “how”, but she did, if the transcript is accurate.


91 posted on 10/23/2016 2:31:20 PM PDT by SoFloFreeper
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To: riri; everyone
Agreed re the 'walk back'.

However !   I'd be curious to hear from any FReepers who had the stomach to tune in CBS what the precise context was in which she purportedly made the We are behind comment that was quoted.

Many's the time the enemedia bastards have taken an innocuous phrase entirely out of context and twisted it to their own seditous ends.

I loathe them all, and urge the few innocent ones to get the hell out .. there'd be more honor in flipping burgers.

92 posted on 10/23/2016 2:37:22 PM PDT by tomkat
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To: stocksthatgoup

Accuracy over wishful thinking.

I watched the interview. Conway does not state or even imply what you are saying she did.

She answers Todd’s question about the state of the race and says: “We are behind” ...further in her conversation/answer to that specific question she then changes the topic to the swing states.

She is not agreeing with the new poll showing Clinton with a 12 point lead...she is simply saying, flatly, that “We are behind” obviously meaning exactly what she said.

Her answer is part of a strategy to make sure the Trump voters turn out.


93 posted on 10/23/2016 2:39:19 PM PDT by Az Joe (Desu Hoc Vult!! The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time....)
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To: Bratch

Kellyanne Conway Should be fired!


94 posted on 10/23/2016 2:40:55 PM PDT by MNDude (God is not a Republican, but Satan is certainly a Democrat)
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To: Bratch

It’s a ridiculous assertion and I doubt she said that exactly

Trump is even in many

He’s ahead in four respected polls with a history of accuracy

He’s only really behind in major tv and print media polls

Some of which use huge dem over sampling and are anything but impartial

Not to mention how early voting ballot requests are


95 posted on 10/23/2016 2:41:46 PM PDT by wardaddy (the traitorous GOPe deserves Third of May 1808 if ever a party did....)
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To: tomkat

You can watch her statement in context for yourself from today’s Meet The Press:
http://www.nbcnews.com/meet-the-press/video/kellyanne-conway-acknowledges-we-are-behind-791775299904


96 posted on 10/23/2016 2:45:26 PM PDT by Nero Germanicus
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To: eekitsagreek; Bratch

Check this to see in what context it was said:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=l755rYnUh0g

Context is everything, and the msm skews and distorts by leaving key info off.


97 posted on 10/23/2016 2:47:51 PM PDT by WildHighlander57 ((WildHighlander57, returning after lurking since 2000)
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To: Bratch

No one except Free Republic is confident of a Trump win. This is the same
Echo Chamber it was in 2012. It doesn’t actually help. Everyone on this site is probably voting for Trump. There is no need for either cheerleading to excite us (as we will all crawl over broken glass to vote him in and Hillary out) or to show some kind of confidence to the rest of the world.

How could any human go up against all media with every tried
And true alinsky method available? How can we beat a criminal enterprise that owns our justice system and federal police? They simply will not
Let us win, period. What do we have? An old parchment under glass in a museum?

Any actual ideas with such little time left that would allow Trump to win?


98 posted on 10/23/2016 2:49:17 PM PDT by Yaelle
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To: MNDude

Manafort was only brought in to manage the convention but he NEVER would have made a mistake like this.


99 posted on 10/23/2016 2:51:03 PM PDT by Snowybear
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To: Finalapproach29er

Because Trump does not waste $$$. The campaign announced today or yesterday there will be a YUGE ad buy starting Monday.

Vote Trump 2016


100 posted on 10/23/2016 2:52:44 PM PDT by TheStickman (Trump will be the 1st Pro America president since Reagan)
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