Clinton Vaults to a Double-Digit Lead, Boosted by Broad Disapproval of Trump (POLL)
By GARY LANGER with GREGORY HOLYK and CHAD KIEWIET DE JONGE Oct 23, 2016, 8:59 AM ET
Hillary Clinton has vaulted to a double-digit advantage in the inaugural ABC News 2016 election tracking poll, boosted by broad disapproval of Donald Trump on two controversial issues: His treatment of women and his reluctance to endorse the election’s legitimacy.
Likely voters by a vast 69-24 percent disapprove of Trump’s response to questions about his treatment of women. After a series of allegations of past sexual misconduct, the poll finds that some women who’d initially given him the benefit of the doubt have since moved away.
Fifty-nine percent of likely voters, moreover, reject Trump’s suggestion that the election is rigged in Clinton’s favor, and more, 65 percent, disapprove of his refusal to say whether he’d accept a Clinton victory as legitimate. Most strongly disapprove, a relatively rare result. All told, Clinton leads Trump by 12 percentage points among likely voters, 50 to 38 percent, in the national survey, her highest support and his lowest to date in ABC News and ABC News/Washington Post polls. Gary Johnson has 5 percent support, Jill Stein 2 percent.
[...] Vote preference results among some groups also are striking. Among them:
• Clinton leads Trump by 20 percentage points among women, 55-35 percent. She's gained 12 points (and Trump's lost 16) from mid-October among non-college-educated white women, some of whom initially seemed to rally to Trump after disclosure of the videotape.
• Clinton has doubled her lead to 32 points, 62-30 percent, among college-educated white women, a group that’s particularly critical of his response to questions about his sexual conduct. (Seventy-six percent disapprove, 67 percent strongly.)
• That said, Clinton's also ahead numerically (albeit not significantly) among men, 44-41 percent, a first in ABC News and ABC/Post polling.
• Trump is just +4 among whites overall, 47-43 percent, a group Mitt Romney won by 20 points in 2012. Broad success among whites is critical for any Republican candidate; nonwhites, a reliably Democratic group, favor Clinton by 54 points, 68-14 percent.
Busted: NOTHING In Trump’s New Hotel Is Made In The USA (PHOTOS)
By Colin Taylor Posted on September 16, 2016
Donald Trump just revealed his staggering hypocrisy to the world when he opened the new Trump Hotel in Washington D.C – and it was discovered to be filled with items made everywhere but the United States. While Trump complains endlessly about how China is “taking our jobs,” he won’t even stock his hotels with American products.
Washington Post reporter Dana Milbank rented an exhorbiantly expensive room to see if Trump practices what he preaches – and this is what he found:
“Italian bed linens, French table linens, Chinese duvet, Korean TV and, yes, Mexican tequila ($14 for a shot of Patrón Silver) in the minibar, er, “private bar,…In my room, I found a Trump logo bathmat and towels from India, bone china from Japan, Italian cutlery and tiles, two telephones from Malaysia, a Swiss refrigerator, German coffee cups, Trump soaps and lotions from Canada and, from China, all four lamps, coffee machine, bathroom scale, valet stand and shower cap. The hotel’s managing director is from France. Most hotel workers I met during my stay had Caribbean or African accents.
He campaigns on an “America First” theme — yet about the only American-made thing I could find in my hotel room was the small package of milk-chocolate Trump gold bullion ($25).
He portrays himself as a populist friend of the little guy, yet he makes money renting out a presidential suite for $18,000 a night (a sign informed me that the maximum nightly rate for my room was $5,600).
He derides the “establishment” but makes his living catering to it. The hotel lobby features a Brioni boutique and 3-foot-tall bottles of Veuve Clicquot sharing a bar top with Dom Perignon; the room comes with a copy of Wine Spectator (“The Cheese Issue”); the hotel charges $15 to launder a shirt, $12 for Peanut M&Ms and $26 for a hamburger (sorry, no taco bowls).”
It’s a devastating takedown that exposes Donald Trump as a fraud and a charlatan, a hypocrite who is obviously taking his supporters for a ride, promising them things he can’t deliver and saying things he doesn’t really believe. At the end of the day, Trump is what we always knew he was – a narcissistic who draws his self-worth from delusions of grandeur and for his insatiable greed.
Inside the Trump Hotel in Washington, DC: bedding made in China, not the USA. pic.twitter.com/lmI5MpBKm4
— American Bridge (@American_Bridge) September 16, 2016
Inside the Trump Hotel in Washington, DC: bedding made in China, not the USA. pic.twitter.com/lmI5MpBKm4
— American Bridge (@American_Bridge) September 16, 2016
A very classy gold lamp in the new DC Trump Hotel, which just happens to have been made in China, not in the USA. pic.twitter.com/wZAloIuNEu
— American Bridge (@American_Bridge) September 16, 2016
This dresser was made in the Philippines, far and away from the USA. pic.twitter.com/MtU7mx9dfc
— American Bridge (@American_Bridge) September 16, 2016
The king-sized beds inside the suites at the new DC Trump Hotel were – you guessed it – not made in the USA. pic.twitter.com/rH3FBLmjJy
— American Bridge (@American_Bridge) September 16, 2016
Even these Trump Hotel branded umbrellas are made in China, not here in the U.S.. pic.twitter.com/aw4q5nj8H8
— American Bridge (@American_Bridge) September 16, 201
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