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IT HAS BEEN a long three days for Donald Trump.
The Republican nominee for American president responded to a scandal involving an 11-year-old video which showed him talking about women in lewd terms by coming out swinging in last night’s presidential debate with Hillary Clinton.
Clearly Trump won’t be going down without a fight. But going down he certainly seems to be if the latest polls are to be believed.
An NBC News / Wall Street Journal poll (conducted in the aftermath of the tape’s release but before the second debate in St Louis) shows Trump trailing by 11 points – 46% to 35% in favour of Clinton.
Every major poll taken in the last two days shows Clinton with a commanding lead, bar one – that of the LA Times yesterday which shows Trump ahead by three points.
Two separate polls in the aftermath of the debate declared that Clinton had been the winner, although common consensus seems to be that Trump had done enough to at least steady the ship.
He needs more than a steady ship over the next 29 days however.
Meanwhile, House Speaker Paul Ryan, the most powerful Republican in Congress, has reportedly told his colleagues that he can no longer “defend” Trump.
Ryan says he will no longer campaign with or for the controversial real estate mogul for the remainder of the race, a source told AFP.
“He will spend his entire energy making sure that Hillary Clinton does not get a blank check with a Democrat-controlled Congress,” the source said.
Trump, as is wont, fired back a broadside of his own at Ryan via Twitter.
While the two have never exactly seen eye to eye, Ryan has yet to officially withdraw his endorsement for Trump.
Both Trump and Clinton were back on the campaign trail today, with the billionaire former reality TV star in feisty form in Pennsylvania, doubling down to a rally on his attention to have his rival investigated and imprisoned should he win the race.
America finally goes to the polls on Tuesday 8 November. It’s set to be a brutal month.
With AFP
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Is Trump not just having the craic? This whole charade is some circus.
Trump is either the most dangerously stupid person ever to run for president, or the greatest comedic actor of our time.
I bet he will be like Katie Hopkins when she won the Apprentice. If he wins, he will turn down the job saying “I just wanted to prove I could win”
@Ben Smith: I couldn’t agree more.
@Peter Cavey: Hopkins didn’t win. She dropped out before the final to become a media wh0re.
I don’t like Donald Trump but why does the Journal constantly focus on his misdemeanour’s while side stepping Hillary Clinton’s wrongdoings. There’s no balance! You’d swear that Hillary Clinton was running for the Irish presidency.
Do women honestly think the men in their lives haven’t talked like this some stage? I have knews for ye. Yes they have.
@Daisy Chainsaw: She talks the truth, and never spouts any PC bull.
Vincent, there’s a difference between dirty talk/saying “naughty” words and then using those words in a sentence fairly indicative of groping and sexual assault. I’d have thought that would have been an obvious difference but apparently… no. Like do you honestly think it’s the words he used that the outrage is over? I think you’ll find it’s the context.
I agree that the media coverage seems one-sided, but then what do you expect when every week Trump says or does something totally asinine? Which in turn ends up distracting from Hillary’s wrongdoings. If the Republicans had an actual serious candidate, rather than this clown, Hillary would be getting slaughtered now and they probably would have walked the election.
Shows what little respect you have for women there Vincent Wallace
No kthopkins does not talk the truth. She spews uninformed bile and twists the truth to support her self publicising media “personality”
@Vincent the issue isn’t that he’s talking about getting p*ssy, it’s that hes talking about TAKING it! Grrrrrrrr
@Vincent Wallace: I don’t know what part of society you grew up in but not all men have such little respect for the females in their lives.
If Brexit has showed us anything it is the inaccuracy of these polls. I think it will be a lot closer than people think. There are a lot of closet Trump supporters I suspect. Both are terrible candidates
Polling has been around a lot longer than brexit, and while brexit polls turned out to be wrong- that does not mean all polls thereafter are going to be wrong too
@Dave Harris: they were also wrong recently on Colombia. Wrong on Greece . They are wrong more often than right these days on important issues.
Donnacha – i fear you’re right. I think trump will win due to the motivation of the various voters.. i think he will win the popular vote at least. God help us i think like brexit the deplorables- most shown on this site – will vote in enough numbers to pull him through. I hope im very wrong!
The Brexit polls were not badly wrong. Almost all had it as too close to call for many months before the vote. They fluctuated around narrow wins for either side. Those who ignore margins of error and believe only the polls that support their prejudices will of course be baffled when what is predicted actually happens.
Very few polls predicted Brexit so to put it down to a simple margin of error is wrong. PaddyPower had Brexit at 5/1 on the night before the vote, and they certainly don’t like to lose
Slamming polls then using a bookie as proof of probability. Bookies odds are affected by how many people bet on either outcome more than on actual facts
How were they wrong on Greece?
Ah sure the polls are always right. Brexit , Colombia, Greece, sure they are so trustworthy not.
: One has to only look at last night’s CNN poll after the debate. Where something like 58% of those that were polled were democrats not biased at all
Not to mention SF at 24%. Ha.
, CNN reported that 58% of the respondents were Democrats. This does not mean that 42% were Republicans, since the 42% figure also includes independents.
The results Sunday also track closely with watchers’ pre-debate preference. Fifty-eight percent of debate watchers said they were supporting Clinton before the debate.”
Yet this the one news media ran with today.
https://www.google.ie/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=http://www.poletical.com/news-alert-october-10-cnn-debate-poll.php&ved=0ahUKEwix7K_jltHPAhWeF8AKHaowAZYQFgh3MAk&usg=AFQjCNFox43VRwjF7qcL9mlKkdkjfyxDOw&sig2=JH4HeQtAYd-rN9Ro1N32Fg
Mk76. Free the 50 accounts
You do realise that in each of your examples the difference in the polls was around 1%… Clinton is ahead by 7-10 % and rising… with Trumps own party having virtually thrown in the towel…
little one ..you cannot be serious( as a famous tennis player once said) . Not everyone is biased..but most people are against racist, narcissist, egotistical, money losing, pay nobody, losers like trump.
@jenni: serious about what? I only posted what CNN themselves have said. It’s on their website. Check it out.
If you mean I serious about polls being wrong then yes. As I said above and others people have said on here. Just look at brexit, Colombia, Greece . It’s happened quite a lot on big issues lately.
You’re taking three unrelated votes from around the world with unexpected results and trying to see some sort of trend that doesn’t exist. Sure the polls get it wrong on rare occasions but the reason those times stick in our minds is because they are so rare.
@Poole Hyde: oh the trend exists alright and denying it doesn’t is crazy. 3 different countries with 3 results that have far reaching consequences in all 3 countries and yet the pollsters git it wrong so dramatically each time.
The fact that you claim unrelated in these ,3 instances is ridiculous. Polls were done time and again in all 3 countries and done by polling companies. It doesn’t matter if they were in different countries. It was still polling companies doing the polling and they got it wrong in all 3 places. That’s the point
The last time the polls failed in the US presidential election was in 1948, Dewey vs Truman. In 70 years the pollsters in the US have pretty much been bang on with regards to the presidential race. You’re like gambler reading trends into statistical anomalies.
Totally agreed the mainstream media is very biased against Trump cause their well paid and it’s fashionable to bash him. Let’s see the reality in a month, Trump has a lot of support and he exposed at lot of truths about the Clintons in that 2nd ‘debate’.
“I don’t know if you noticed, but our two party system is a bowl of shit looking in the mirror at itself.” – Lewis Black.
Got to love Lewis Black https://youtu.be/kqfDqDB8uzE
Yet another negative Trump article from the Journal. Can you rename the site to CNN aka in Hillary’s pocket.
Trump just gives so, so so much ammunition though
Agreed he is an incoherent fool but the Irish perception of the Clintons is so far removed from reality.
@Gary Molloy: it’s fairly difficult to post a positive Trump article to be fair.
@Gary Molloy: When you criticise Trump, why do his supporters always reply with something Hillary has done, instead of simply addressing the criticism? Nobody even mentioned Hillary, so how does she end up in the answer?
@Gary Molloy:
Worry not Gary. The Trump-haters are depressed because The Donald made a come-back from a crescendo of unfair criticism. They’re suffering from a ”suppose they gave a funeral and the corps didn’t turn up” syndrome.
@Gary Molloy: They need to apple-o-gise.
“Unfair criticism”, riiiiight….
@Gary Molloy: You seem to think when people give out about Trump they automatically support Clinton, This is not the case, The fact he shoots himself in the foot more than her is not the medias fault. Unfortunately a politician being corrupt and owned by the wealthy is no longer news so unless trum stops acting like a toddler we are going to continue to see stories.
Serious overkill on the Journal recently, wall to wall coverage of these two clowns!
To quote Bill Maher : “Don’t let Trump quit! You a$$holes voted for him, nominated him, handcuffed yourself to this dead hooker, now drag it to the finish line!”
He is perfect for the job
Or maybe he needs to increase his body count first to match Hillary
The Democrats won’t win the house any time soon. Northern Ireland might have invented jerrymandering but the Yanks perfected it.
@Old Gordon: Actually Gerrymandering was named after a US politician – so the Yanks invented it after all.
I love the way senior republicans are jumping ship now. What took them so long? It’s been obvious for a long time that Trump is a misogynistic, bombastic narcissistic bully. It’s their fault he is where he is.
They have races of their own to win so therefore their support was always going to depend on Trump’s popularity. Rat of the day award goes to Paul Ryan who has left the door open for himself incase Trump’s numbers go up. Can’t defend him or support him but will endorse him
It’s nothing to do with Trumps personality. If he was winning or close to winning they’d still be there regardless. This is about preserving the GOP itself. They need to hold the house and Senate at all costs. Clinton will load SCOTUS with at least two Democratic judges so that’s already gone. If they don’t hold both houses it’s pretty much over and they honestly might as well go home for at least the next four if not eight years.Gun control, expansion of abortion rights, legislation on climate change etc all get passed without any trouble. In fact it would give Clinton such a free reign I might start siding with the GOP myself once Trump is put to bed. Ideally she needs to be a hamstrung one term president and once gone history need never mention her presidency or this campaign again.
Ryan is the face of middle of the road conservative America. AKA a slimeball
Load SCOTUS? You mean do what every US President has done when they have the chance?
Trump or Clinton,I don’t know how anyone can defend either..but that’s politics.
Gun to your head, which one?
He has plenty of time to recover. A month is a lifetime in politics.
Voting has already begun. Why do you think that recording of Trump or the Wikileaks “October surprise” were released when they were and not two days before the main event ? Now is the critical moment where the most damage can be done. There’s about a week of a window and after that there’s usually nothing more that can be done to influence voters bar convincing them to actually vote.
The worse things get for Trump the more angry and unhinged he gets which results in him going off the TelePrompTer prepared speeches, which in turn alienates other GOP reps. which again makes things worse again. There are more tapes out there and as these get released he will spiral ever more out of control as his ego won’t allow him to be handled. I’m not sure he will last the next four weeks.
Plus if reports are to be believed there are even worse recordings coming down the line.
he’s like one of these rubbish contestants on a talent show the public keep putting through to the next round for the laugh.
@Ken Pepper: He’s Katie Weasel and will end up eating kangaroo anus in a couple of years on IACGMOOH.
Nah Daisy… I’m still going for him ending up like Howard Hughes.. Casino penthouse, popping pills surrounded by jars of his own piss….
Republicans to loose the Senate as well
Considering the circumstances under which he went into the debate it’s surprising that he not only came out alive but actually did quite well. A testament to how terrible Clinton is that she couldn’t capitalise on his troubles. I guess at this point she thinks she just has to show up. But a lot of hardened politicians have learned the hard way not to underestimate him. The debate has been reduced to both candidates telling the voters how bad the other one is and they’re both right.
$5 million to leak unseen Apprentice tapes & Trump dropping the N word.
Mmm I wonder who will pay for that privilege?
The final nail?
@MinnieMoocher01:
i know what ya mean but ironically a tape of him using the N word would only continue to play to his base the same way they wanted him to attack hilairy , threant to jail her and all the other BS theatrics the morans want to hear…it probably would have no real effect at all , he has no real support from the african americans anyway in truth
If the republicans were smart they could still win the election by replacing trump with pence. Die to Clintons untrustworthy past I’m sure pence would beat her by a clear margin. I don’t know why they are letting trump sink their ship and they stand idoly by.
Can’t can’t dump him, he has to quit for that to happen
@mrmeade: There would be a lot to throw at Mr Pence,too-like paying off his mortgage with political donations.And that’s just before we get to throw in the laws that he has tried to /brought in ..
As a good catholic, Paul Ryan is relying on the withdrawal method, but it doesn’t stop the spread of something nasty!
Paul a Ryan should support his owns parties candidate! Otherwise, the Republican Party is shooting itself! 30 days to sort out the issues!
Read the small print on the polls they are sampling 45% democrats to 25% republicans. Sorry folks it’s a landslide for Trump.
Trump is working for Hillary it must be true
@Leitrim303: here is some proof!! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xPDdXfgGy4k
Best thing for Ireland to do here is welcome Hillary and her $Billions to Ireland before Donald Trump slams her in the clink as he promised.
@Patrick J O’CONNOR: So Trump is planning to get rid of judges and juries and just imprison who he promises to? Interesting policy! Reminds me of some sort of dictatorship…
All part of the plan , pick an shite corrupt unlikeable nutjob candidate and put them up against Trump and she comes smelling of roses.
Poll debunked here as propaganda http://www.infowars.com/poll-that-claims-hillary-11-points-ahead-run-by-clinton-ally-paid-off-by-her-super-pac/
Maybe people in the US may reject both Trump and Clinton. There are two other candidates in this election who get very little publicity.
Is there…Anything to be said for another mass!?
And it seems it’s not only words… http://www.snopes.com/2016/06/23/donald-trump-rape-lawsuit/
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