Editor: Vladimir Bajic | Tactical Investor
Trump Destroys Obama
Donald Trump and Barack Obama have gone head-to-head on the campaign trail just hours before the mid-term elections.
With a day left until voting begins, ex-president Obama told a rally that the US has found itself at a crossroads.
The Democrat said that politics in the country was full of liars.
Meanwhile, incumbent Mr Trump has focussed his rhetoric on immigration.
It comes as the president begins his final whistle-stop tour, in Ohio, ahead of voting time.
In a series of rallies on Monday, the President implored his supporters to vote on Tuesday, saying the media will treat the midterm results as a referendum on his presidency.
Meanwhile, some Democrat supporters admitted they were haunted by the spectre of 2016 when Mr Trump’s triumph confounded the pundits and opinion polls which had predicted a Hillary Clinton victory.
“Even though I’m not on the ballot, in a certain way I am on the ballot,” Mr Trump said during a tele-town hall meeting organised by his re-election campaign on Monday to encourage Republicans to get out and vote.
“The press is very much considering it a referendum on me and us as a movement.”
Mr Trump is fighting to keep Congress in Republican control and stave off losses that could profoundly change his presidency.
Mr Trump’s closing argument has largely focused on fear, warning, with no evidence, that a Democratic takeover would throw the country into chaos, spurring an influx of illegal immigration and a wave of crime. Full Story
The poll of the week
Americans, by a wide margin (56 per cent to 37 per cent), think Barack Obama was a better president than Donald Trump has been, according to a CNN poll of adults released this week. Americans think Hillary Clinton would have been a better president than Trump has been, but by a much smaller margin (47 per cent to 44 per cent).
These numbers aren’t that surprising, but they are weird.
The gap between Obama-Trump (19 percentage points) and Clinton-Trump (3 percentage points) is really large, and I’m not sure it’s based on policy differences.
Second, Obama’s 19-point advantage over Trump is huge. Obama is not some hypothetical figure: He ran for president twice, and 46 per cent (2008) and then 47 per cent (2012) of the country voted for the other candidate. Trump is not John McCain or Mitt Romney, you might say, and that’s fair. But count me sceptical that an actual Obama-Trump head-to-head race would have produced such a blowout. Full Story
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