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months and it’s a different story. He still has the outsiders firmly subscribed to his vision. But it’s those old-school Republicans he just can’t count on. And that makes red states vulnerable.
Now, the Clinton camp sees this as an opening to poke around for votes in conservative states.
It’s an opening that looks just like Arizona voters Kimberly Angelo and Brenda Witherspoon.
They are the type of women the Republicans should have sewn up. They’re Christian and believe in the right to bear arms. They want to open their own business, and they think President Barack Obama’s health scheme, Obamacare, is too expensive.
They live in a white, Christian sliver of Arizona, working in a grocery store.
But they hate the way Trump talks about women, and are disgusted that he doesn’t pay taxes.
“I work very hard. I work five days a week and a whole day goes to taxes. I want to know why he doesn’t pay taxes. He keeps bragging about having a lot of money. You’ve got a lot of money, why don’t you pay taxes like we all have to?” Kimberly says.
The Trump camp can’t count on Arizona’s Brenda Witherspoon and Kimberly Angelo.
“We’re poverty-stricken and he doesn’t even pay his taxes,” Brenda, who is looking for a second job, chimes in.
Kimberly says she’s undecided about whether she will cast a vote for Clinton, but she represents exactly the type of voter the Clinton campaign is trying to capture.
“I won’t vote for that man. But really, I don’t think anyone can clean up this mess our country’s in,” she says. uphill battle with the Christian conservatives as a result of his vile comments about women. He is now hoping to stir their deep commitment to the conservative cause.
New polling out on Thursday revealed Clinton was ahead in Arizona, 39 to 34 per cent. The independents took up just 7 per cent and 21 per cent were undecided.
The single time Arizona voted for a Democrat in the past 16 elections was for Bill Clinton in 1996. His wife will now seek to make the anomaly a double act.
This week, Clinton deployed her most influential surrogates to the state: Bernie Sanders, her daughter Chelsea and Michelle Obama.
Polling on Tuesday also had Clinton neck and neck in Texas, where a Democrat hasn’t been backed for president since 1976.
Three weeks ago, Clinton was trailing Trump. He looked to be on a trajectory to victory before their fortunes reversed. Trump now has the same amount of time to orchestrate the switch between first and second place again. But first, he’ll need to secure the states he shouldn’t even have to worry about.