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Republican fears grow over rising Democratic tide
By Reid Wilson - 10/07/20 06:00 AM EDT
Republicans are growing increasingly concerned about poll numbers that show a rising Democratic wave just four weeks before Election Day as President Trump suffers one of the most brutal two-week stretches of his first term at precisely the wrong moment.
For months, Republicans and Democrats alike have confidently predicted that former Vice President Joe Bidens lead in national and battleground state polls would tighten.
But after a new string of jarring numbers, some Republicans are beginning to fear that voters hesitant to say they will back Trump are not coming home and that the few remaining undecided voters are breaking decidedly against him and the Republican Party as a whole.
The conventional wisdom among Republican strategists and pollsters was that a natural tightening tends to occur post-Labor Day, said Ken Spain, a longtime Republican strategist. The events over the course of the last few days have thrown that into chaos.
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babylonsister
Oct 2020
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Iliyah
(25,111 posts)1. And yet they are still kissing shithole's arse . ...
Buckeyeblue
(5,499 posts)4. They haven't figured out another option.
When you've been all-in with the devil, it's difficult to pivot.
beachbumbob
(9,263 posts)2. I rather enjoy the Baghdad Bob expressions when they talk
from the politicians to foxnews people.
malaise
(269,144 posts)3. It will be 95% Biden by Halloween
when tear down that orange pumpkin and make America Breathe Again!
Peacetrain
(22,878 posts)7. From your lips to God's ears malaise!!!!
love that thought
tanyev
(42,594 posts)5. They can't see that a large chunk of that rising Democratic tide was caused
by a giant orange asteroid plummeting into the ocean?
catbyte
(34,423 posts)6. Well, DUH. 2018 wasn't a fluke. smh.