Posted on 09/18/2016 9:30:33 AM PDT by Steelfish
As Trump Rises In Battleground States, Clinton Moves To Block His Path To 270
By Philip Rucker and Dan Balz September 17 EXETER, N.H. Tiny New Hampshire has just four votes in the electoral college, but Tim Kaine was back here for his third visit in five weeks. At back-to-back campaign appearances, Hillary Clintons running mate offered a blunt reason for why.
This race is close, the senator from Virginia said at a rally Thursday in this picturesque New England town. I would rather be us right now than them. I think we have a more straightforward path to win and they have a more complicated path. But [there is] nothing to take for granted because, lets be honest, its been a season of surprises.
To many Democrats, the biggest surprise is that Donald Trump has mounted a comeback. Despite being battered all summer by his own missteps as well as a barrage of attack ads from Clinton, the Republican nominee has been surging in the battleground states.
Public polls over the past week show Trump leading Clinton in Ohio, Florida and Iowa; moving into a virtual tie with her in Nevada and North Carolina; and cutting into what had been comfortable Clinton leads in New Hampshire as well as in Colorado, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Virginia.
Clintons return to the campaign trail after her highly publicized bout with pneumonia came at what has turned out to be the low point for her of the general election. She is laboring to regain solid footing before the first of three debates, on Sept. 26.
It is too early to know whether the episode will be a turning point that reverses gains for him in many of the battleground states.
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Marching right in there with her best pantsuit on I bet. Give me strength with these clowns who write this sort of stuff.
Uh, yeah for example, your Mistress collapsing like a sack of potatoes. Timmay just wrote the next Trump ad: "We can't afford more surprises"
Nice spin.
Even with her fat ass Cankles can’t “block” Trump.
She needs to send her body double out there and campaign for her.
She's much more likeable.
Trump is playing chess....maybe even three D chess
Hillary might be playing checkers
Straight forward as in steal the elections. That is waaay more easy than campaigning and debates.
She was measuring the drapes a couple weeks ago. From the same Washington Post. LOL!
She's got a legion of fresh voters to do just that.
Washington Post is in meltdown mode today.
Love it! Trump is rising in the polls, so the WaPost’s Hillary Concern Trolls are coming out of the woodwork.
Hillary is done.
I love how the media says Trump “has to win Ohio and Florida” as if Hillary can breeze by with losses in both states.
Whoever wins Ohio and Florida is almost assured to win the presidency.
Buying off the electoral votes to win for her...
She’s wasting tons of money in California. An ad every 30 minutes.
CT, RI and MA are in play.
Hillary’s support there is in the single digits.
She has to run ads in a Blue State 50 days out from the election?
Hillary is done.
Good question.
CA is supposed to be a lock for her. Why run ads there at all?
Was there a momentary electrical "brown out" in NY on 9/11 afternoon...?
The lady doing hugs with the child at that time was Hillary just come back from 30 years ago for a short visit.
“But [there is] nothing to take for granted because, lets be honest, its been a season of surprises.
That’s a “tell”.
They’re losing, and they know it.
Both sides are competing in blue states. Not a good sign for Hillary.
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