More than 40 percent of Americans say Donald Trump should drop out of the presidential race following the release of a video of the GOP nominee making lewd comments about women in 2005. ABC News together with our partners at SSRS survey research firm conducted a rapid response poll, asking […] Read more »
Republicans’ Agonizing Wait for Latest Diagnosis
… The video and subsequent GOP defections make it all but impossible for Trump to win the White House. Self-identifying Republicans make up about only one-third of the electorate, so as Trump loses GOP support, he’ll need to make up that ground with Democrats or independents. That’s just not likely […] Read more »
Gender gap in views on Trump tape describing advances on women
Hillary Clinton leads in the key state of Ohio by four points (46 percent to 42 percent) and in Pennsylvania by a wider eight point gap (48 percent to 40 percent), a state that seems critical to Donald Trump’s electoral hopes. And Clinton also is ahead in Wisconsin 43 percent […] Read more »
How Trump Could Become a ‘Political Black Hole’ for the GOP
Until this weekend, Republicans worried most about Donald Trump’s electoral ceiling. Now, with an avalanche of GOP officials renouncing his candidacy as the second presidential debate approaches, the more relevant question may be his electoral floor. CONT. Ronald Brownstein, The Atlantic Read more »
Donald Trump’s Conduct Was Excused Again and Again. But Not This Time.
… Why did a decade-old three-minute video provoke a sudden revolt by party officials against their nominee, an uprising that could very well destroy their chances of taking the White House? … Because it turns out that even the most self-interested members of the political class, the true weather vanes […] Read more »
The Bottom Could Fall Out For Trump
Let’s not naively insist on taking a wait-and-see approach regarding the events of the past 24 hours. The revelation of a tape from 2005 in which Donald Trump was caught making a number of lewd comments about women, and seemed to condone unwanted sexual contact toward women, is bad news […] Read more »