What If: Could the GOP abandon Trump and focus on Congress?

The RNC, not Trump’s campaign, has sent hundreds of employees to the most critical presidential battleground states. But with just over two months to go, he still has a narrow window to try to make up for wasted time.

As Mr. Trump began courting minority voters in recent weeks, Mrs. Clinton launched a series of attacks, including a TV ad, alleging that he was aligned with white supremacists, the Klu Klux Klan and neo-Nazis.

Yet if this election has any lessons to offer, it’s to expect the unexpected and never write off Trump.

“People have to get to know that they can count on you – that you won’t say one thing one day and something totally different the next”, Clinton said, burnishing her own credentials as a former secretary of state. But party strategists downplay GOP polls at this point in the race, arguing they don’t account for “informed voter” input – surveys in which pollsters give more information about the candidates and their stances on issues before assessing match-ups between candidates.

Trump turned down invitations to speak to each of those groups, which Wilkerson called “ridiculous”.

Donald Trump pinatas, with dark suits, oversized pink lips and unruly yellow manes in paper mache, are top sellers across South Texas – a potential sign of trouble for its Republican congressman and some colleagues representing predominantly Hispanic districts across the country. That is still below the 85 percent support Republican nominee Mitt Romney enjoyed in the summer of 2012, but the improvement helps explain Trump’s rise in the poll.

In recent weeks, Clinton has come under renewed criticism over her handling of classified information while serving as US secretary of state, and her family’s charitable foundation has come under fresh scrutiny for the donations it accepted while Clinton served in the Obama administration.

Over the following ten days, Trump and his advisers mused publicly about “softening” his approach to undocumented immigrants and seemed to consider backing some version of a path to legalization. “And I hope the Republicans are watching closely, or it’s going to be taken away from us”.

Beyond those states, preference polls show her ahead in Virginia and Colorado, and competing in close contests in North Carolina, Florida and Ohio. That means he needs to live in those states for the next two months.

That’s not to say his presence wouldn’t be helpful in other places.

In the midst of it all, Abedin’s disgraced husband Anthony Weiner was caught in a sexting scandal – sending raunchy photos and messages including one with his toddler son, to a woman supporter of Trump – for the third time in five years. He must devote the vast majority of his campaign appearances to the states that matter the most.

And new criticism following Trump in Detroit this weekend.

The Republican nominee must improve his standing with voters who are not white men to have a chance.

Donald Trump was met with tears and gratitude as he sat with African-American supporters Friday, including the mother of a young woman who was killed in an attack by a group that included men who had entered the USA illegally.

The poll showed 40 percent of likely voters supporting Trump and 39 percent backing Clinton for the week of August 26 to September 1. After initially resisting calls for an apology, Burns said he regretted using the image but stood by his contention that Clinton and other Democrats take black voters for granted.

The businessman bully, who lags Hillary Clinton in every major national poll, is also behind in all six states where he has golf green in his name. She brought in $62 million for her campaign, and another $81 million for the Democratic National Committee and state parties.

“It is possible that a large portion of the public, based on common sense, will discount this kind of statement, especially if Clinton’s victory is large and doesn’t depend on just one state or a few swing states”, said Dr Foley, adding that the country has seen disputed elections in the past and, if history is any guide, “the U.S. can survive an episode where the losing side doesn’t think the victor won fairly”. Research suggests that in-your-face strategy could be especially risky now that he’s up against a female opponent.