The past three weeks could not have gone much worse for Donald J. Trump, or really the entire Republican Party for that matter. Yet the polls conducted this week, after the second presidential debate on Sunday, have not been apocalyptic. …
A wave election seemed possible after Mr. Trump was heard bragging about groping women in a videotape, causing many Republican officials to withdraw their endorsements. … But there aren’t yet many signs that the bottom has fallen out for either Mr. Trump or the Republican Senate candidates in key states like Florida, Ohio, Wisconsin, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, New Hampshire, Nevada and Missouri. CONT.
Nate Cohn, New York Times