press trust of india
Washington, Sept 18: Hillary Clinton’s campaign Sunday acknowledged the sudden surge of rival Donald Trump and said that the race to the White House is now tightening while the Republican Party said its campaign has gained momentum. Such comments from the two campaigns came as RealClearPolitics – which keeps track of all major national polls – said that the lead of Clinton over Trump for the first time dropped below one percentage point and her advantage over the GOP nominee is quickly slipping away in some of the key battleground states.
Immediately after the two back-to-back conventions in July, Clinton’s lead was touching almost double digits and she as leading in almost all of the battleground states. “The race is about where it was when we went into the two conventions. It was essentially dead-heated into the two conventions. After the second convention, we got a lift, which you always do out of the convention. But it has tightened up because…we are a divided nation,” said Senator Tim Kaine, the Democratic Vice Presidential nominee. “We are politically very divided. And that is reflected again and again in so many of our elections and maybe again, especially because I come from Virginia, which is one of those battleground states where it’s been awful close recently, this is just who we are as a country,” Kaine told ABC News.
“And that puts the burden on our shoulders to make the best positive case we can over the next 50 plus days,” he said. The Presidential elections are scheduled to be held November 8.The first of the series of three presidential debates begins September 26. Kaine said he hopes to regain the momentum by bringing some basic questions on the table like climate change and LGBT equality. Appearing on the same talk show, the Republican Vice Presidential nominee, Governor Mike Pence from Indiana said, “The momentum in this campaign is really overwhelming and I think it’s because Donald Trump has been focusing on issues that the American people really cared about. He brought that issue to an end this week”.
“But I have to be honest with you, other than many in the national media, and certainly in Hillary Clinton’s campaign, as I campaign all across this country with Donald Trump and for Donald Trump, the American people aren’t focused on the debates of the past, they’re focused on their future,” he asserted.
