Trump denies polling nosedive
In the face of a spiraling campaign, the GOP nominee rejects the numbers as inaccurate.
By Katie Glueck
10/23/16 08:01 PM EDT
Donald Trump on Sunday insisted that he remains competitive in the polls, particularly with women, even as a host of recent surveys show the Republican nominee’s numbers plummeting.
Trump kicked off a rally in Naples, Fla., by bashing polls as “inaccurate,” especially the myriad results that show him struggling with women.
“I’ll tell you what, we’re doing well in the polls, but you know, I really think those polls are very inaccurate,” Trump said, flanked by women waving pink “Women for Trump” signs. “When it comes to women, I think we’re doing better with women than with men. So we’re setting records with men. But I want to set records with women. I hate to tell the men this, but if I could swap, I’d swap you out so fast, you have no idea how fast.”
But Trump’s appearance followed another round of bad polling for him. A survey from ABC News released earlier in the day found his opponent, Hillary Clinton, with a lead of 12 percentage points, ahead of Trump 50 percent to 38 percent nationally—and beating him with women, 55 percent to 35 percent, as he continues to grapple with nearly a dozen allegations of sexual assault, which he denies.
A CBS poll of Florida also out Sunday found Clinton with a lead of three percentage points over Trump in the state that could decide the election at a time when Trump’s path to victory has narrowed considerably, barely two weeks before Election Day. His own campaign manager, Kellyanne Conway, acknowledged on "Meet the Press" on Sunday that Trump was trailing Clinton, though she stressed in an interview on CNN's "State of the Union" that "the election doesn't feel over."
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