With less than one month before the nation’s electorate flexes its muscles to determine its choice of commander in chief, the forecast is looking more and more like Hillary Clinton is on her way to victory over Donald Trump.
Clinton’s triumph over Trump is becoming increasingly evident in just about every major poll in every battleground state, even taking on double digits leads. And she could take Texas, too, where she trails Trump by two percentage points. Pundits are talking about a massive shellacking for Trump and possibly the GOP in general.
Even so, the Clinton campaign is not about to rest on its laurels or the polls. According to some reports, the campaign is geared up to forge into GOP territory, the traditional red states, to blitz Trump’s remaining bastions.
There is no need to list the various indicators that presume a Clinton victory; most of them have been of Trump’s making, and Wednesday’s debate, the final one at last, could be Trump’s last hurrah. Expect to see a few more October surprises from him about Clinton and the emails, which, in toto, are without any criminal aspects. In fact, a close reading of some of them could be used to bolster Clinton’s charge to the front.
Nevada is another bone of contention and another thorn in Trump’s side as taco trucks encircle his International Las Vegas hotel, highlighting a labor dispute between Trump and union. “While we have taco trucks,” said a union leader, “the reason we are out there is for the last year now Trump has illegally refused to bargain with workers who won a union election at his hotel.”
Not only is the union voicing a complaint about Trump’s reluctance to deal with them, but also the trucks are being used to help register potential Latino voters.
Still, Trump has millions, including a multitude of women, who are determined to stand by their man, despite the flood of allegations about his groping that many feel amounts to sexual assault.
It is impossible to figure how and why so many women remain loyal followers of a man when even his wife has voiced her objections to what he said, though in a round of recent interviews she had defined it all as “boy talk.”
Well, an increasing number of Americans are convinced we don’t need a boy as a leader in these troubled times.
Yes, we are nearing the finish line, and we may soon be finished with Trump, at least for the moment after Nov. 8. But we are sure to hear more of his mantra, “the election is rigged,” from now until the inauguration.