Clinton draws record crowd as Trump flounders
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A new NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll, conducted after the video was released but before Sunday's debate, showed Clinton with an 11-point lead in a four-way election -- 46 percent to 35 percent -- and a 14-point lead in a head-to-head matchup.
"I may be limping across that finish line, but we're going to get across," conceded Trump at a rally in Wilkes-Barre in the crunch state of Pennsylvania, for once conceding the scale of the fight before him.
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Americans is going to hand Donald Trump a thumping defeat --- to show him that majority is unable to tolerate his excesses.
Donald Trump is politically finished - for goodness sake!
Clinton draws record crowd as Trump flounders
Ivan CouronneOctober 11, 2016
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US Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton speaks during a rally at Ohio State University in Columbus, on October 10, 2016More
An invigorated Hillary Clinton commanded a record crowd of more than 10,000 supporters, leaving Donald Trump floundering as America's top elected Republican all but conceded the White House.
The former secretary of state looking to make history as America's first woman commander-in-chief on Monday held an evening rally at Ohio State University ahead of the state's deadline to register to vote Tuesday.
The turnout marked a record for her campaign, with Trump teetering on the precipice after damaging revelations of his lewd comments about women.
The Clinton camp estimated the size of the crowd at 18,500, including 5,000 outside the perimeter. An AFP reporter said the number at more than 10,000.
The Democrat tried repeatedly to get under her Republican opponent's skin, mocking his television career.
"On the day that I was in the Situation Room watching the raid that brought Osama bin Laden to justice, he was hosting 'Celebrity Apprentice,'" she said, a day after the two candidates held their second presidential debate watched by an estimated 66.5 million people.
"So if you want to talk about we've been doing the last 30 years: Bring. It. On," added Clinton.
The Democrat, who has struggled to energize young voters, focused her speech on youth turnout, repeatedly stressing the stakes of the November 8 election, just four weeks away.
"This is turning the clock back not just a few years but centuries. The only way to rebuke this is to vote," she repeated.
Her rival's candidacy suffered a crippling blow after the 2005 tape was released Friday in which he claimed he could grab women by the crotch with impunity because, as a celebrity, "you can do anything."
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The fallout saw a wave of Republican lawmakers abandon him, including some who have urged him to step aside.
A new NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll, conducted after the video was released but before Sunday's debate, showed Clinton with an 11-point lead in a four-way election -- 46 percent to 35 percent -- and a 14-point lead in a head-to-head matchup.
"I may be limping across that finish line, but we're going to get across," conceded Trump at a rally in Wilkes-Barre in the crunch state of Pennsylvania, for once conceding the scale of the fight before him.
He promised to make six campaign stops a day in the final week before the election, insisting there was still a path to victory and urging his core supporters to come out and vote on November 8.
"We have to make sure this election is stolen from us and not taken away from us," he said.
It was the customary rock-star reception for the Republican nominee at the Mohegan Sun Arena in Wilkes-Barre, which has a maximum capacity of 10,000 and which was close to -- but not entirely -- full.
"Without the media, Hillary Clinton couldn't be elected dog catcher," said Trump, calling US television network CNN "a disgrace." CNN host Anderson Cooper was one of the two moderators at Sunday's debate.
At one point, Trump picked up a toddler dressed as a mini-Trump in a grey suit, red tie and white shirt, with blond hair.
"Trump," replied the child into the microphone to laughs when the Republican candidate asked whether the boy wanted to go back to his parents or stay with the nominee, before he handed him back over.
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But as he promised to bring back jobs, end illegal immigration, renegotiate trade deals and reduce taxes, one man shouted "how are you going to do it?" and turned his head away in disgust.
Faced with the tape scandal, House Speaker Paul Ryan told fellow Republican lawmakers that he could no longer "defend" Trump, and that the priority now was maintaining the party's control of Congress.
"You all need to do what's best for you in your district," he said, effectively giving cover to lawmakers considering severing ties with the controversial GOP flagbearer.
Sunday's town hall-style debate was a study in heated personal attacks and a stark reminder of the divisiveness of the 2016 race.
In a room that included Bill Clinton and three women who have accused the former president of sexual misconduct, Trump threatened to jail his rival and lobbed incendiary allegations against her husband.
The 70-year-old real estate mogul apologized for "locker room talk," but accused Bill Clinton of being "abusive to women."
On Monday, Trump doubled down on a pledge to investigate his rival if he wins, despite the suggestion being roundly denounced.
"Special prosecutor here we come," Trump sneered at a rally in Ambridge, Pennsylvania, branding Bill Clinton a "predator."
"If they want to release more tapes... we'll continue to talk about Bill and Hillary doing inappropriate things."
Trump trails Clinton by 8 points after tape scandal, debate - Reuters/Ipsos poll
By Chris KahnOctober 12, 2016
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Republican U.S. presidential nominee Donald Trump arrives on stage at a campaign rally in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, October 10, 2016. Picture taken October 10, 2016. REUTERS/Mike SegarMore
By Chris Kahn
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Donald Trump has fallen further behind Hillary Clinton and now trails her by 8 points among likely voters, according to a new Reuters/Ipsos opinion poll, with 1 in 5 Republicans saying his vulgar comments about groping women disqualify him from the presidency.
The national tracking poll was launched after Sunday night's second presidential debate, where Trump was pressed to explain his comments in a 2005 videotape about grabbing women's genitalia. He described the remarks, which first surfaced on Friday, as "locker room" banter and apologised to Americans.
The poll released on Tuesday showed Clinton, the Democratic nominee, had increased her lead over Trump, the Republican nominee, to 8 percentage points on Monday from 5 points last week.
When asked to pick between the two major-party candidates, 45 percent of likely voters said they supported Clinton while 37 percent supported Trump. Another 18 percent said they would not support either candidate.
Trump was under pressure during Sunday's debate to restore confidence in his struggling campaign after dozens of lawmakers repudiated him over the weekend. He hammered Clinton's handling of classified information while serving as secretary of state and referred to her as "the devil." At one point, he said he would jail Clinton if he were president.
Among those who said they watched at least portions of the debate, 53 percent said Clinton won while 32 percent said Trump won. The results fell along partisan lines, however: 82 percent of Democrats felt Clinton won, while 68 percent of Republicans felt that Trump won.
Among likely voters who watched the debate, 48 percent said they supported Clinton while 38 percent supported Trump.
'LOCKER ROOM TALK'
In the 2005 Access Hollywood video Trump boasted about making unwanted sexual advances toward women. "When you’re a star they let you do it," he is heard saying.
Some 61 percent of those polled said that "lots of men" occasionally engage in similar conversations, and 46 percent, a plurality, said it was unfair to judge someone on conversations "that they did not intend for anyone else to hear."
Most of those polled said they believe Trump is a sexist, but they were split on whether his comments disqualify him from being president. Some 42 percent of American adults, including 19 percent of registered Republicans, said Trump's comments disqualified him, while 43 percent said they did not.
Among Republicans, 58 percent said they want Trump to remain atop their party's ticket, and 68 percent said the Republican leadership should stand by him.
The video doesn't appear to have worsened Trump's standing among women, who mostly had a low opinion of him already, according to Reuters/Ipsos polling over the past 12 months.
When asked to pick between the two candidates, about 44 percent of women chose Clinton while 29 percent selected Trump - roughly the same proportion as measured in polls conducted before the weekend.
Trump, however, appears to be shedding support among evangelicals, who are usually a wellspring of support for Republican presidential candidates. Monday's poll showed that Trump had only a 1-point edge over Clinton among people who identified as evangelicals. That’s down from a 12-point advantage for Trump in July.
The Reuters/Ipsos poll is conducted online in English in all 50 states. The poll of 2,386 American adults included 1,839 people who watched the debates, 1,605 people who were considered likely voters due to their registration status, voting history and stated intention to vote in the election. Among the likely voters, the poll counted 798 Democrats and 586 Republicans.
The poll has a credibility interval, a measure of accuracy, of 2 percentage points for the entire group, 3 points for likely voters and the debate watchers, 4 points for Democrats and 5 points for Republicans.
National opinion polls have measured support for the candidates in different ways this year, yet most agree that Clinton is leading and that her advantage has strengthened as the general election approaches.
RealClearPolitics, which tracks most major opinion polls, shows Clinton ahead of Trump by an average of 7 percentage points, and that her lead has grown since the middle of September.
(Reporting by Chris Kahn, editing by Ross Colvin)
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