Some GOP Groups Have Essentially Conceded the Presidential Election

And First Lady Michelle Obama, arguably the Democrats’ most powerful public speaker in recent weeks, held a rally in Phoenix Thursday, urging the crowd of thousands to vote for Clinton and other Democrats on the Arizona ballot.

Day said she would not support Democrat Hillary Clinton, either.

Defeat seemis likely for long-struggling Sens. Tim Kaine, D-Va. board the campaign airplane, Saturday, Oct. 22, 2016, in Pittsburgh, Pa.

There is palpable momentum for Democrat Hillary Clinton in Arizona, a state so traditionally Republican that her party’s nominee for president has carried it just once in the past 64 years. Otherwise, Republicans will likely hold on to the House and hold a veto over Hillary Clinton’s agenda. She will work with (Republicans).

“We are behind. She has some advantages”, Trump campaign manager Kellyanne Conway said.

“That language is not just harmful to the democratic process; it’s harmful to the Republican Party“, he told ABC News.

For Democrats, there’s another reason to try to run up the score. Mark Kirk, one of the more moderate Republicans, recovered from a 2012 stroke and returned to the Senate.

Mrs Clinton now holds such a strong upper hand that Priorities USA, a super PAC backing her campaign, may direct some of its war chest into Senate races, two people said, and may begin broadcasting ads for those contests as soon as next week. “It will be because we didn’t stand with her”. As this new AP analysis shows, Trump is doing well in Ohio, Iowa and Georgia.

If the candidates say they will vote for Trump, Democrats will criticize them for supporting a man who has made widely criticized comments about women.

It won’t be easy.

On top of those you have Pennsylvania and New Hampshire where there are extremely close races.

Trump’s campaign manager Kellyanne Conway has taken a different approach, reports the Washington Post. The first element is voter suppression, raising the oh-so-false alarm of voter fraud as the basis for enacting laws meant to keep minorities from voting (and in case those minorities still insist on exercising their franchise, sending out “poll watchers” to intimidate them).

Democrats need four seats in the Senate to take the chamber if Clinton wins. House control would be much harder.

But Republican leaders said they are confident their incumbents in the state Senate, as well as in the U.S. House of Representatives, will be re-elected.

Clinton’s nascent focus on helping fellow Democrats comes with an inherent contradiction.

Current party breakdown: 54 Republicans, 44 Democrats, two independents who caucus with the Democrats.

Thus has Trump issued yet another challenge to those Republicans who aspire to play key roles in the nation’s political life after the election.

In Indiana, where Bayh is trying to beat back a barrage of outside spending from GOP groups and John Gregg is trying to win the governor’s seat now held by Republican vice presidential nominee Mike Pence, Democratic first-term Sen.

House Republicans hope they are on sturdier ground because their 30-seat margin gives them one of the biggest majorities in years.

“If she wins by 10 points, Democrats have a shot at the House”, Jacobson said.

No matter how angry Trump voters may be with Republicans for trying to save the GOP from disaster on November 8, they’ll soon remember the basic rule of third parties in America: They represent wasted votes.

We follow the same standards for taste as the daily newspaper. He’s in a rematch with Democrat Emily Cain in this historically Democratic district, and could be helped by another ballot initiative, this one expanding background checks for gun ownership.

Indeed, at least a half dozen key races in the Hudson Valley, Long Island and western NY will help determine whether Republicans can retain the Senate majority and maintain its standing in Albany.

In Nevada, Obama went after Cortez Masto’s Republican opponent, Rep. Joe Heck. “She needs him to win the election”, Zeleny says. But Obama said GOP candidates were simply reacting to Trump’s slipping poll numbers. “You’ve got the power”. Conway spoke on “Fox News Sunday” and NBC’s “Meet the Press”.

Mook spoke on CNN’s “State of the Union”.