Giuliani: 'Everybody should calm down' about Trump's poll numbers

[mystery-ak]

August 07, 2016, 10:29 am
Giuliani: 'Everybody should calm down' about Trump's poll numbers

By Rebecca Savransky

Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani (R) said Donald Trump still has a good chance to win in November despite recent polling that shows the GOP nominee behind Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton.

"First of all, 8 points down at this stage, of course you'd rather be ahead, but I remember George Bush the first being 16 points down to [Michael] Dukakis going into September. So let's, you know, calm down," he said on ABC's "This Week."

"Everyone should calm down about it. There's certainly every opportunity for Trump to win this election."

Several recent polls have shown Trump behind the Democratic nominee, both nationally and in battleground states.

In the RealClearPolitics average of polls, Clinton has a 7-point lead over Trump, 47.5 to 40.5 percent.

The GOP nominee has also faced backlash recently over some of his recent comments, including his criticism of the family of U.S. Army Capt. Humayun Khan, a Muslim soldier who was killed in 2004 in Iraq.

Giuliani in the interview Sunday also attacked Clinton, saying he thinks her comments just don't get as much attention as Trump's.

"For example, she lied to a Gold Star mother. She lied to Patricia Smith, the mother of Sean Smith, who was killed at Benghazi, I believe, because of her incompetence, her incompetence in failing to secure that mission," he said.

"And she lied to her on September 14th, 2012, right at the coffin.  She said it was due to a video," he continued.

"So I think that's far more serious — or at least it said get as much attention as all of the attention that was paid to, you know, the comments that were made about -- about the Khan — about the Khan family."

http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/290669-giuliani-everybody-should-calm-down-about-trumps-poll-numbers

[Gov Bean Counter]

It isn't his poll numbers that bother me.

It is his dark soul that is Satan's playground and the empty space between his ears.

[musiclady]

It isn't his poll numbers that bother me.

It is his dark soul that is Satan's playground and the empty space between his ears.

 

[Bigun]

It isn't his poll numbers that bother me.

It is his dark soul that is Satan's playground and the empty space between his ears.

 

[NavyCanDo]

Again comparing George Bush or Reagan being down in the polls at the point in the election?  Both of those candidates had something that Trump does not have, Sanity.   Both ran a smart campaing and made few mistakes, and recovered well when they did have a bad moment like in a debate.   If Trump doesn't learn to keep his pie hole shut and stop saying stupid stuff on a daily bases, he has no chance at all.

[sinkspur]

"First of all, 8 points down at this stage, of course you'd rather be ahead, but I remember George Bush the first being 16 points down to [Michael] Dukakis going into September. So let's, you know, calm down," he said on ABC's "This Week."

Nope.  Completely wrong.

Bush opened a lead after the GOP Convention and never relinquished it.  Trump is going in the opposite direction, Rudy.

Stuart Rothenberg ‏@StuPolitics  2h2 hours ago
On This Week, Giuliani says Bush41 was down 16 pts vs Dukakis going into September 1988. False. Bush was ahead after conventions (Gallup).

And here's Paul Manafort, just this morning:

Byron York ‏@ByronYork  50m50 minutes ago
One year in, Paul Manafort tells @MariaBartiromo: 'The campaign is just beginning…we're at the beginning...it's a three-month campaign.'