Trump, with electoral path narrowing, insists he’s ‘winning’

BOSTON • The negative tone of this year’s White House race is souring young Americans, turning some away, just as the millennial generation has become as large a potential bloc of voters as the baby boomers. Okay, two weeks from today we will find out. In the first two days of early voting, almost twice as many Democrats as Republicans cast ballots. Assuming Trump wins all of those – and he now trails in many – he would earn the exact number of electoral votes needed to win the presidency and no more.

Florida was the closest swing state in 2012, with President Obama winning it by less than a point.

The only age group where Clinton now trails Trump is among 50-64, who back Trump by four points in this poll, the news channel said. “Who’s voted already?” Trump asked a cheering crowd in St. Augustine.

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Mosher, who is white, said he got behind Clinton once she won the Democratic nomination, because “at least she’s a step” toward the free college tuition and higher taxes for wealthy people that Sanders had proposed.

However, Trump has throughout the campaign appeared to have the support of some potential crossover voters, including Latino immigrants who back his tough message on illegal immigration. In one ABC survey that was conducted entirely after the third and final presidential debate, Clinton led Trump by a full 12 percentage points among likely voters, with 50 percent to the GOP nominee’s 38 percent. Tim Kaine, made two Florida appearances Monday. If you wish to vote by mail, your application must be received no later than one week before Election Day-that means your votes must be mailed by November 1st.

Elliott Fullmer, a Randolph-Macon College political science professor, suggested either camp could play up select early-vote trends. Such a slight difference makes the state a statistical toss-up, according to the site, which had previously classified Texas as leaning towards Trump.

While they spar from a distance, hundreds of thousands of Floridians are voting.

But Trump leads among voters who plan to cast their ballots on Election Day, 49 percent to 41 percent. Where early voting is underway, and some are still undecided. Right now, Hillary Clinton’s leading most national polls.

On Monday, the Democratic nominee campaigned alongside New Hampshire Gov. Maggie Hassan, who is locked in a tight Senate race against Republican incumbent Kelly Ayotte.

Trump leads in battlegrounds Georgia, Iowa, Missouri and Ohio.

Trump departed from Sanford to an event in Tallahassee, as he continues to focus on the Sunshine State, a state he must win.

The areas around where Dr. Trump would live both seem to be strongly in support of Clinton.

The New York billionaire on Monday lashed out at the media, a regular target of his struggling campaign: “Media in the tank for Clinton but Trump will win!” he declared on Twitter.

In Georgia, ballot requests and returns among black voters trail 2012 levels.