Election Watch: 10/4
First of all, how awesome was that first debate?!
Hillary Clinton had her best night of the year, hands down. Under the lights of prime-time national television, Hillary smiled and watched Donald Trump destroy himself onstage.
Around Thursday, the first 3-day polls (generally accepted as the most accurate) began to show what the majority of Americans had to have realized after the debate: Hillary looks like our next President. From the Washington Post:
New national polling from CNN-ORC shows a wide swing toward Clinton over the past month. In early September, she trailed Trump by one point in the same poll — polling that was ahead of the trend showing the race narrowing. The new poll has Clinton up by five points, a six-point swing that seems to be in large part a function of her strong debate performance.
Clinton was trailing with men by 20 points; now she trails by four. She was trailing with independents, she now leads. For the past week or two, the national race has been fairly static, with Clinton enjoying about a three-point lead.
And the debate was only the beginning of a very bad week for Trump. A New York Times investigation found that he declared an almost billion-dollar loss on his tax returns in 1995, potentially allowing him to legally avoid paying income tax for up to twenty years.
Tax experts hired by The Times to analyze Mr. Trump’s 1995 records said that tax rules especially advantageous to wealthy filers would have allowed Mr. Trump to use his $916 million loss to cancel out an equivalent amount of taxable income over an 18-year period.
Next, Trump addressed a group of military veterans and informed them that military suicides only happen to people who “can’t handle it.”
Seriously, is this the man trying to be commander-in-chief of our military?
We’ll have state updates along with the latest state polls next Tuesday. Until then, don’t miss the next presidential debate on Sunday, October 9 at 9:00pm.