At this point, SNL’s spoofs on Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton are just barely heightened versions of reality – there’s no need to spruce up the truth; it’s already ridiculous. He blamed the growing story on his Democratic opponent Hillary Clinton and an global media conspiracy, describing his female accusers as “sick” people seeking fame or money. Roy Blunt of Missouri, who is running for re-election. “Honestly, folks, I don’t think I sit alone”. The president said that it was GOP complacency that led the party to nominate a candidate who he said brags and jokes about sexually assaulting women. FiveThirtyEight now gives Ms Clinton an 86 per cent chance of winning, and Mr Trump just 14.
But the fact that voters are more interested in Trump’s obscene comments about women captured on tape – and troubling allegations that he acted the way he talked – isn’t surprising.
The issue has overshadowed his campaign during the last week, with some Republicans withdrawing their support and others condemning his statement. Rob Portman of OH, who is working to fend off a challenge from Democratic former Gov. Ted Strickland. But the attack is so personal and negative it could backfire on Trump in the final month of the campaign. A few of the original defectors subsequently got back on board, including Sen.
“Donald Trump’s chances of winning this election have faded”, Democratic pollster Fred Yang of Hart Research Associates, which conducted the survey with Republican pollster Bill McInturff and his firm Public Opinion Strategies, told NBC.
The latest presidential election for the United States could prove to be a tough yet memorable one, especially with the colorful figures now running for office. Trump says all of the accusations are fabricated.
Apparently unaware of his own allies’ talking points, Trump himself weighed in soon after to say his conspiracy theory isn’t limited to the media: it also includes corruption “at many polling places”. The new allegations follow the release last Friday of a video from 2005 where Trump made lewd comments that he has since apologized for. In August, as he fell far behind in polls after a feud with the family of a fallen Army captain who was Muslim, Trump told a crowd in Pennsylvania that the only way he would lose is if “cheating” goes on.
In addition to praising Obama, Clinton told DeGeneres that Trump’s rhetoric against women fits a pattern that has been repeated throughout the campaign.
Friday’s accusations against Trump are in line with similar allegations by women in articles by The New York Times and the Palm Beach Post.
“You don’t start complaining about the refs before the game’s even done”, Obama said. “We are going to stop it”.
In Kansas, Rep. Lynn Jenkins has urged voters to remember that the next president will determine the direction of the Supreme Court. “I would have to be a moron to say that”, he said.
And in Nebraska, Rep. Adrian Smith said that electing Hillary Clinton “would be a disaster”.