Donald Trump vowed to pour his own millions into the race for
the White House Wednesday, refusing to be written off in the
Polls showed the Democratic nominee, who is vying to become
the first female US president, still comfortably ahead of her
billionaire Republican rival with just 13 days to go before
Americans pick a new president.
The 70-year-old Manhattan businessman took heart, however,
from a new survey that shows him with a two point lead in early
voting Florida, and a slight narrowing in the race nationally.
"We are going to have, I think, a tremendous victory, " Trump said in
an interview with CNN before heading to North Carolina, one of
the battleground states he needs to win on November 8.
Pressed on whether he'll open his wallet to match an onslaught
of Clinton ads, Trump said he will have spent $100 million by
Election Day.
"I'm willing to spend much more than that if I have to, " he said.
Trump departed for Charlotte, North Carolina after carving out
precious time for the grand opening of his new luxury hotel in
Washington, the Trump International Hotel.
Clinton marked her 69th birthday campaigning in Florida,
speaking to a capacity crowd in Lake Worth before flying to
Tampa on the Gulf coast.
A Bloomberg poll out Wednesday put Trump 45 to 43 percent
among likely voters in Florida, a must-win state for him.
A RealClearPolitics poll average still puts Clinton ahead in the
state by 1.5 percent. But Bloomberg's survey shows Trump
doing somewhat better than Clinton with independents, who
may hold the key to victory in a state that famously deadlocked
in 2000. The Supreme Court decided the outcome, giving the win
to George W. Bush.
Clinton holds a 4.7 percent lead nationally over Trump in a poll
average compiled by tracker RealClearPolitics, but it has
narrowed by over half a point since Tuesday.
'13 days left'
"There are 13 days left. Most Americans are going to cast their
votes on Election Day. And we know we are going to win this
election because enthusiasm and momentum, the movement in the
polls, " Trump campaign manager Kellyanne Conway said on
CBS "This Morning."
"She's the one with the huge advantages. We're the ones with the
momentum," she said of Clinton.
Clinton reached out in taped radio interviews to audiences in
Florida and North Carolina as she started her day.
To a Hispanic audience on Miami-based Univision's National
Radio she trumpeted her promises to introduce comprehensive
immigration reform with a path to citizenship "as soon as I get
there."
"I'll do everything I can to keep families together, and to ensure that
people living here who have been here for years, who've raised their
kids here, who've worked hard, will have a chance to come forward
and finally become citizens ," she said.
Rallying supporters at a college in southern Broward County on
Tuesday, Clinton urged Floridians to help propel her to the White
House by getting out and voting "right now."
"Please join me. This is bigger than me. It's bigger than any of us.
It's even bigger than Donald Trump if you can believe it, " she told
the cheering crowd.
President Barack Obama -- who will campaign for Clinton on
Friday in Florida -- has said he wants an overwhelming
Democratic victory in order to send the message that
Americans reject Trump's divisive rhetoric.
Florida is the country's third most populous state, and one with
a wide mix of constituencies, including retirees, Hispanics and
Bible Belt whites.
"We don't plan to lose Florida. It is the biggest prize ," Clinton's
communications director Jennifer Palmieri told reporters
Tuesday.
North Carolina
North Carolina voted for Republican nominee Mitt Romney in
2012, but the conservative southern state has been leaning
Democratic in the current White House race.
Clinton holds a two percent lead there and the state's
Republican leaders worry that controversies that have dogged
Trump throughout the campaign will hurt them in congressional
races.
North Carolina's Republican Senator Richard Burr is in a tight,
closely watched re-election contest with Democrat Deborah
Ross. A Burr loss could tip control of the US Senate to
Democrats.
Trump's standing in polls has been hit hard, particularly among
female voters, since this month's release of a 2005 video on
which he boasts that his celebrity allows him to grope women
with impunity.
Since then, about a dozen women have come forward with
sexual misconduct allegations.
But a more disciplined Trump has largely stayed on message in
Florida, attacking Clinton over taxes and foreign policy, and
jabbing at her email scandal.
Source :The Punch
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