{"id":13914,"date":"2016-10-24T04:29:12","date_gmt":"2016-10-24T04:29:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/?p=13914"},"modified":"2016-10-24T04:29:12","modified_gmt":"2016-10-24T04:29:12","slug":"hillary-clinton-presses-her-advantage-over-a-struggling-donald-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/news\/hillary-clinton-presses-her-advantage-over-a-struggling-donald-trump.html","title":{"rendered":"Hillary Clinton Presses Her Advantage Over a Struggling Donald Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hillary Clinton Presses Her Advantage Over a Struggling Donald Trump<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n

Hillary Clinton Presses Her Advantage Over a Struggling Donald Trump:-<\/strong> Hillary Clinton moved aggressively on Sunday to press her advantage in the presidential race, urging black voters in North Carolina to vote early and punish Republican officeholders for supporting Donald J. Trump, even as Mr. Trump\u2019s party increasingly concedes he is unlikely to recover in the polls.<\/span><\/p>\n

Aiming to turn her edge over Mr. Trump into an unbreakable lead, Mrs. Clinton has been pleading with core Democratic constituencies to get out and vote in states where balloting has already begun. By running up a lead well in advance of the Nov. 8 election in states like North Carolina and Florida, she could virtually eliminate Mr. Trump\u2019s ability to make a late comeback.<\/span><\/p>\n

At times, Mrs. Clinton is going beyond seeking simply a victory over Mr. Trump, asking voters to strengthen her hand in Congress and repudiate not just Mr. Trump but also Republicans who have accommodated or endorsed him.<\/span><\/p>\n

After lashing Senator Patrick J. Toomey of Pennsylvania in a speech on Saturday, Mrs. Clinton urged voters at an outdoor rally on Sunday in Raleigh, N.C., to elect a Democratic governor and to turn Senator Richard M. Burr out of office.<\/span><\/p>\n

Calling Mr. Burr\u2019s Democratic challenger, Deborah Ross, \u201cexactly the kind of partner I need in the United States Senate,\u201d Mrs. Clinton upbraided Mr. Burr for failing to reject Mr. Trump.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cUnlike her opponent, Deborah has never been afraid to stand up to Donald Trump,\u201d Mrs. Clinton said, adding, \u201cShe knows that people of courage and principles need to come together to reject this dangerous and divisive agenda.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

It is a sign of the extraordinarily lopsided nature of the presidential race that, even in a Republican-controlled state like North Carolina, Mrs. Clinton is in a position to exhort voters to hand control of the Senate to Democrats. Though she is still not broadly popular, Mrs. Clinton has cast her candidacy \u2014 and now, perhaps, her party \u2014 as a safe harbor for voters across the political mainstream who find Mr. Trump intolerable.<\/span><\/p>\n

Seeming to peer past the end of the race, Mrs. Clinton offered herself as a figure of conciliation during a visit on Sunday to a black church in Raleigh.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThere are many people in our country willing to reach across the divide, regardless of what you\u2019ve heard in this campaign,\u201d she said.<\/span><\/p>\n

For Republicans, blunting Mrs. Clinton\u2019s ability to carry other Democrats into office has become the overriding imperative in the final weeks of the 2016 race. With Mr. Trump so diminished as a competitor for Mrs. Clinton, Republicans say they will now ask voters in newly explicit terms to elect a divided government rather than giving Mrs. Clinton unchecked power.<\/span><\/p>\n

The Congressional Leadership Fund, a powerful \u201csuper PAC\u201d that supports Republicans in the House of Representatives, is to begin running ads in the coming days that attack Democratic candidates as \u201crubber stamps\u201d for Mrs. Clinton and urge voters in swing districts to support Republicans instead.<\/span><\/p>\n

Mike Shields, the group\u2019s president, said it had tested that message and found it effective in closely contested races, even with voters who are likely to support Mrs. Clinton over Mr. Trump.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThere are many districts where we are going to be running ads that talk about the Democrat being a rubber stamp for Hillary Clinton,\u201d Mr. Shields said. \u201cIn many districts, it is a very, very potent weapon to use against a Democratic candidate for Congress.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Republicans fear Mr. Trump will do grievous damage to the party unless he can close the yawning gap with Mrs. Clinton in the presidential race. An ABC News tracking poll published on Sunday showed him trailing Mrs. Clinton by 12 percentage points nationally and drawing just 38 percent of the vote.<\/span><\/p>\n

Mrs. Clinton, who drew support from 50 percent of voters in the poll, was openly dismissive of Mr. Trump over the weekend, telling reporters on Saturday that she no longer worried about answering his attacks. \u201cI debated him for four and a half hours,\u201d she said. \u201cI don\u2019t even think about responding to him anymore.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Karl Rove, the chief strategist of George W. Bush\u2019s successful presidential campaigns, said on Sunday on Fox News that he no longer believed Mr. Trump had a realistic path to victory against Mrs. Clinton.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t see it happening,\u201d Mr. Rove said.<\/span><\/p>\n

In addition to trailing by a wide margin in national polls, Mr. Trump has fallen well behind Mrs. Clinton in states that are likely to determine control of the Senate, including North Carolina, Nevada, Pennsylvania, Florida and New Hampshire, and also in suburban areas around the country that are critical to the Republicans\u2019 House majority.<\/span><\/p>\n

Two outside groups aligned with Republicans, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the Senate Leadership Fund, have also begun running television commercials in Senate races that imply Mrs. Clinton is likely to be the next president and ask voters to limit her power by supporting Republicans.<\/span><\/p>\n

Mr. Trump\u2019s campaign manager, Kellyanne Conway, acknowledged on NBC\u2019s \u201cMeet the Press\u201d that Mr. Trump was trailing. She said the campaign had \u201ca shot\u201d at winning over undecided voters who do not now support Mr. Trump but who dislike Mrs. Clinton.<\/span><\/p>\n

But Mr. Trump has made little effort in recent days to deliver a sharply honed campaign message or to address the flaws at the core of his candidacy. In his public remarks, Mr. Trump has delivered an insular and self-referential closing message, dwelling on personal frustrations at the expense of any wider appeal to voters. In a speech on Saturday that was intended to outline his closing message in the race, Mr. Trump instead began by threatening to sue the women who have come forward to say that he had sexually assaulted them.<\/span><\/p>\n

Campaigning on Sunday in Florida, where early voting is set to begin in most counties on Monday, Mr. Trump attacked Mrs. Clinton\u2019s national security record, but swerved repeatedly from his script. At one point, he suggested that the American-backed offensive to retake Mosul, Iraq, from the Islamic State was merely an effort by President Obama to \u201cshow what a tough guy he is before the election.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Source:-\u00a0http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/10\/24\/us\/politics\/hillary-clinton-campaign-donald-trump.html?_r=0<\/span><\/p>\n

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