Clinton
campaign dismisses polls putting Donald Trump in the lead
A
senior Clinton campaign official says a new ABC News/Washington Post
tracking poll which put Trump one point ahead is ‘not what we see
at all’
Dan Roberts in Tampa
and Ben Jacobs in Washington
Tuesday 1 November
2016 18.51 GMT
Clinton campaign
officials have dismissed a poll suggesting that Donald Trump may have
taken the lead in the final days before Tuesday’s election,
insisting they see no evidence of a negative impact from Friday’s
new FBI email disclosures.
Speaking as Hillary
Clinton flew to Florida for a whirlwind series of campaign events, a
senior campaign official conceded there was a tightening in the polls
but only what they had already expected would happen after the
debates finished.
Asked by reporters
on the campaign plane to respond specifically to a new ABC
News/Washington Post tracking poll which put Trump one point ahead,
the aide described it as “bad polling”.
“It’s not what
we see at all,” said the official. “There seems to be something
about that model that seems odd. The race has tightened the way that
we thought it would tighten, but we do not see anything that would
suggest [the new tracking poll] is right.”
Democrats also
dispute the findings of several polls since Friday that the letter
from the FBI director, James Comey, saying his staff were examining
emails that may be related to the previous investigation into
Clinton’s private email server has had a negative marginal affect
on voter enthusiasm for the Democratic candidate.
“We do not see any
evidence that the Comey story has had an impact,” said the aide.
“We’ve seen anecdotal evidence about turnout and our voter
registering, volunteer numbers, etc, that suggests that if anything
it has encouraged our supporters.”
Clinton is not
expected to address the email question again on Tuesday during her
three scheduled events in Florida, but aides defended her decision to
begin two speeches in Ohio on Monday raising the issue. “Obviously
it is something that has got a lot of attention in the last few days,
so we did think it was important for her to address.”
Instead, the focus
in Florida is expected to be on reminding voters how much is at stake
in next week’s election.
“There is no state
that is more important and we think it is a state that she will win
and Donald Trump has to win,” said the aide. “If she wins
Florida, that … will put her over the top.”
Voters should also
brace for a deluge of new advertising nationwide, however, as the
Clinton campaign spends its remaining money on television commercials
across the US.
“You’ll see us
back on the air in a lot of states over the last week or so,” said
the aide, who agreed only to speak anonymously to reporters on the
plane. “We’ve been able to raise a lot of money and it’s the
last week to spend it. So you’ll see us spending in a lot of states
where we haven’t.”
Donald Trump, in a
rally in Eau Claire, Wisconsin, renewed his attacks on Clinton over
the email investigation. He warned the crowd of thousands that if his
rival were elected “it would create an unprecedented constitutional
crisis and the work of government would grind to an unbelievable,
unglorious [sic] halt.”
He also reminded
Clinton voters in the Badger State that they can change their ballots
if they have already voted absentee and now feel “a bad case of
buyer’s remorse.”
The event carried
all the trappings of a normal presidential rally as Republican
elected officials like Senator Ron Johnson, facing an uphill fight
for re-election, and Governor Scott Walker appeared with their
party’s nominee. It marked the first time that Johnson who is
considered an underdog in his Senate bid against former Senator Russ
Feingold appeared at an event with Trump.
The Republican
nominee also unveiled his closing ad on Tuesday entitled Choice. It
cast the election as referendum between staying “on the road to
stagnation” with Clinton, or getting “the change we’re waiting
for” with Trump.
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