{"id":2933,"date":"2024-10-16T14:18:05","date_gmt":"2024-10-16T14:18:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nine9ja.com\/analysis-trump-is-getting-wilder-and-wilder-but-the-white-house-race-remains-a-toss-up-cnn-politics\/"},"modified":"2024-10-16T14:18:05","modified_gmt":"2024-10-16T14:18:05","slug":"analysis-trump-is-getting-wilder-and-wilder-but-the-white-house-race-remains-a-toss-up-cnn-politics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nine9ja.com\/es_es\/analysis-trump-is-getting-wilder-and-wilder-but-the-white-house-race-remains-a-toss-up-cnn-politics\/","title":{"rendered":"Analysis: Trump is getting wilder and wilder, but the White House race remains a toss-up | CNN Politics"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\n Democrats have bet the destiny of the White House on the premise that once voters remember the chaos and divisiveness of Donald Trump<\/a>\u2019s presidency, he\u2019d suffer an election-defining slump.\n <\/p>\n

\n Wild weeks of outlandish rhetoric by the ex-president have revived memories of the cacophony of his four White House years and shattered perceptions that he\u2019s running a more disciplined campaign than in 2020 or 2016. But the nature of the race \u2014 a toss-up contest<\/a> in swing states \u2014 has not budged.\n <\/p>\n

\n Trump has peddled baseless rumors<\/a> that immigrants in Ohio are eating pets. He\u2019s warned that Jewish voters will be to blame if he loses in November. He\u2019s refused to openly condemn a protege in the North Carolina gubernatorial contest who described himself as \u201cblack Nazi\u201d on a porn site, as CNN\u2019s KFile reported<\/a> last week. Trump also reacted to a second apparent assassination attempt by implying that<\/a> Vice President Kamala Harris and Democrats are inviting such attacks when they highlight his refusal to accept his 2020 election loss and say he\u2019s a danger to democracy.\n <\/p>\n

CNN’s Jessica Dean speaks with Republican strategist Doug Heye about four senior campaign members for Mark Robinson stepping down in the governor’s race in North Carolina days after a\u00a0CNN report<\/a>\u00a0uncovered inflammatory comments he made on a porn website.<\/p>\n

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CNN’s Jessica Dean speaks with Republican strategist Doug Heye about four senior campaign members for Mark Robinson stepping down in the governor’s race in North Carolina days after a\u00a0CNN report<\/a>\u00a0uncovered inflammatory comments he made on a porn website.<\/p>\n

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GOP strategist ‘not surprised’ about shakeup in Mark Robinson\u2019s campaign. Hear why\n <\/p>\n


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\n Despite everything, the ex-president remains locked in what CNN senior political data reporter Harry Enten described Sunday as the closest presidential race<\/a> since Democrat John F. Kennedy\u2019s narrow win over Vice President Richard Nixon.\n <\/p>\n

\n Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, whose political network will be critical to Harris\u2019 hopes in the must-win state for Democrats, said on CNN\u2019s \u201cState of the Union\u201d on Sunday, \u201cI can just tell you this: This election is going to be close. We have always known that.\u201d She added: \u201cIn a state like Michigan or Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, we know that this is going to be a close race.\u201d\n <\/p>\n

\n The tight nature of the contest was highlighted by the candidates\u2019 remarks and strategies over a weekend of tense campaign exchanges.\n <\/p>\n

\n Harris suggested that the ex-president was \u201clooking for an excuse\u201d to avoid debating her after she accepted CNN\u2019s invitation<\/a> to a second contest on October 23. The former president, meanwhile, tried to reduce the wide gender gap with women that threatens his election with a frantic Truth Social post in all caps. Trump vowed: \u201cI will protect women at a level never seen before. They will finally be healthy, hopeful, safe and secure. Their lives will be happy, beautiful and great again!\u201d\n <\/p>\n

\n On Sunday, in a rare moment of introspection, Trump told Sharyl Attkisson on \u201cFull Measure\u201d that he doesn\u2019t seem himself running again in 2028 if he loses in November. \u201cI think \u2026 that will be it. I don\u2019t see that at all,\u201d he said.\n <\/p>\n

On “State of the Union,” CNN’s Jake Tapper is joined by Gretchen Whitmer (D-MI) where they discuss former President Donald Trump’s comments on abortion during a rally in North Carolina.<\/p>

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On “State of the Union,” CNN’s Jake Tapper is joined by Gretchen Whitmer (D-MI) where they discuss former President Donald Trump’s comments on abortion during a rally in North Carolina.<\/p>\n

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‘He’s just deranged’: Gov. Whitmer reacts to Trump’s comments on abortion\n <\/p>\n


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\n But despite the rising heat on the campaign trail, the race remains where it has been for weeks: deadlocked.\n <\/p>\n

\n National polls have ticked up slightly for Harris since her debate with Trump<\/a> earlier this month, although there is still no clear leader. The vice president is at 50% compared with Trump\u2019s 47% in the latest CNN Poll of Polls average. The survey incorporates five polls conducted entirely after the debate on September 10. One poll added to the average on Sunday, from NBC News, showed Harris at 49% support to Trump\u2019s 44% \u2014 the ex-president\u2019s lowest level of support in a poll that meets CNN\u2019s standards since Harris replaced President Joe Biden<\/a> as the Democratic candidate in July.\n <\/p>\n

\n While Harris\u2019 improving trajectory is a reason for optimism for her supporters, the presidency will be decided in the Electoral College. That puts great importance on results in a handful of states, including Pennsylvania, Georgia, Nevada, Wisconsin, Michigan and North Carolina, where polling averages put the contest within a few points either way. As few as several hundred thousand voters could have the power to choose between the hugely contrasting paths that a Trump or Harris victory would mean for the United States and the rest of the world.\n <\/p>\n

CNN senior data reporter Harry Enten breaks down the importance of the state of North Carolina in the upcoming presidential election.<\/p>

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CNN senior data reporter Harry Enten breaks down the importance of the state of North Carolina in the upcoming presidential election.<\/p>\n

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Enten breaks down how important North Carolina is for both Trump’s and Harris’ campaigns\n <\/p>\n


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\n In New York Times\/Siena College polls released on Monday, Trump leads among likely voters in Arizona, 48% to 43%, in a matchup including third-party candidates who will appear on the ballot there. There is no clear leader in Georgia or North Carolina, the polls found.\n <\/p>\n

\n So why does the contest remain so tantalizingly close?\n <\/p>\n

\n Trump\u2019s comeback attempt is, after all, a stunning story considering he left office in disgrace after inciting an attack by his supporters on the US Capitol on January 6, 2021, and after refusing to accept he lost the election. Trump, who was twice impeached, is a convicted felon who is facing more grave criminal charges<\/a>. It\u2019s inconceivable that any other politician could have survived such a torrent of scandal and still be within reach of the Oval Office again.\n <\/p>\n

\n A core principle of the Biden campaign before the president\u2019s departure from the race was that once voters saw the unfiltered bombast of Trump, their memories of his tumultuous term would return and he\u2019d lose. But Biden\u2019s failure at the CNN debate in June, when his advanced age was painfully obvious, obliterated the comparison. Harris, who turned the race on its head when she replaced Biden, has tried to highlight the contrast between her pragmatism and Trump\u2019s extremism. At last month\u2019s Democratic National Convention in Chicago, she set up a narrative that Trump was an \u201cunserious man\u201d who poses an \u201cextremely serious\u201d threat. But the best spin on the Harris campaign with just over six weeks to go is that the vice president has returned a race that Democrats looked very likely to lose back into the neck-and-neck fight that it always seemed likely to be.\n <\/p>\n

On CNN\u2019s State of the Union, CNN Political Commentator Kate Bedingfield, CNN Political Commentator Jamal Simmons, and Republican strategists Erin Perrine and Brad Todd discuss new national polling showing Harris leading Trump and the controversy engulfing the North Carolina gubernatorial race.<\/p>

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On CNN\u2019s State of the Union, CNN Political Commentator Kate Bedingfield, CNN Political Commentator Jamal Simmons, and Republican strategists Erin Perrine and Brad Todd discuss new national polling showing Harris leading Trump and the controversy engulfing the North Carolina gubernatorial race.<\/p>\n

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\u2018That is almost the ball game\u2019:CNN panel reacts to new Harris-Trump favorability polling\n <\/p>\n


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\n Any understanding of what is ahead must start with an acknowledgment of the extraordinary resilience of Trump as a political figure. He\u2019s transformed the Republican Party in his image and built an unassailable grip on the GOP\u2019s base as the nominee in a third straight election.\n <\/p>\n

\n And for all of the recriminations of his first term, polls show many voters think their economic security \u2014 reflected in lower prices for rent, cars and groceries \u2014 was better with Trump in office, at least until the Covid-19 pandemic hit.\n <\/p>\n

\n But such sentiments may still not get Trump over the line. His support in the CNN Poll of Polls (47%) underscores a liability that has dogged him his entire time in presidential politics \u2014 his inability to get a majority of Americans to support him.\n <\/p>\n

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\n With this in mind, it\u2019s worth asking whether an alternative GOP candidate \u2014 who doesn\u2019t behave in a way that alienates crucial swing-state, moderate and suburban voters and disaffected Republicans \u2014 might be doing better in a head-to-head race with Harris. The party had the chance to move on but overwhelmingly rejected candidates such as Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley during the primary race earlier this year.\n <\/p>\n

\n Harris, meanwhile, is an eleventh-hour substitution for a president seeking reelection who voters long ago concluded was not fit for a second term. The task the vice president inherited is also daunting \u2014 to save the party from likely defeat in November while serving as what many Democrats hope is a savior for democracy itself. While she has billed herself as a new generational force of change, Harris is still a member of an unpopular administration amid a deeply unfavorable political environment.\n <\/p>\n

\n The NBC poll<\/a> offers an explanation for this contradictory dynamic. The top concern expressed by voters \u2014 at 28% \u2014 was inflation and the cost of living. That number was 23% in April. The second top concern of voters was threats to democracy (19%). While this issue appears to favor Democrats, it could also reflect growing traction among conservatives for Trump\u2019s claims that Democrats \u2014 with what he falsely claims is a weaponized justice system \u2014 threaten democratic freedoms. The third most important issue to voters in the NBC poll was immigration and the border (14%) \u2014 another area where polls show persistent Harris vulnerability. Abortion, one of her top issues, was seen the same way by only 6% of voters.\n <\/p>\n

\n The New York Times\/Siena polls also suggest that anxiety over the economy may be overpowering other concerns about Trump. Across Georgia, North Carolina and Arizona, Trump has double-digit advantages among likely voters over who is more trusted to handle the economy. The former president is more broadly seen as having policies that have \u201chelped people like you\u201d than Harris.\n <\/p>\n

\n Voters\u2019 concerns over the economy suggest that either candidate could carve out an edge in the final weeks. Trump has been unveiling new economic proposals \u2014 sometimes seemingly off the cuff \u2014 including his proposal not to tax tips and to repeal a provision in his own administration\u2019s tax plan related to state and local taxes.\n <\/p>\n

\n Harris is promising<\/a> to help people afford housing, child care and health care, and has been trying to persuade voters that she really understands the pain of high prices at grocery stores, which remain elevated despite the slowing in the rate of inflation that saw the Federal Reserve cut interest rates<\/a> last week.\n <\/p>\n

\n The vice president will this week try to counter criticism that she\u2019s not being sufficiently specific about her plans as wavering swing-state voters mull whether they can trust her to make their lives better. \u201cI\u2019m going to be giving a speech this week \u2026 to outline my vision for the economy,\u201d she told reporters Sunday. \u201cI\u2019ve named it an opportunity economy, which really, in short form, is about what we can do more to invest in the aspirations, the ambitions, the dreams of the American people while addressing the challenges that they face \u2014 whether it be the high price of groceries or the difficulty in being able to acquire home ownership.\u201d\n <\/p>\n

\n Harris\u2019 tactics underscore the reality of an election cycle in which voter frustrations seem to favor the Republican candidate, but the contest remains competitive largely because of Trump\u2019s tendency to alienate available voters, despite his stunning loyalty among supporters.\n <\/p>\n

\n South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham, one of Trump\u2019s top backers, summed up the state of the race in a conversation with NBC\u2019s Kristen Welker on \u201cMeet the Press\u201d on Sunday. He said: \u201cSixty-five percent of the people in your poll say the country\u2019s on the wrong track. Who\u2019s best able to solve the crime problem? Trump by 6. Who\u2019s best on the economy? Trump by 9. Inflation, Trump by 8. Border, Trump by 21.\u201d\n <\/p>\n

\n \u201cSo, what do I get out of this poll? On the things that matter most to the American people, Trump is winning decisively. In a head-to-head, he is not.\u201d\n <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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