Trump rejects polls, insists he is winning
“I believe we’re actually winning,” Mr. Trump declared during a round table discussion with farmers.
A day after suggesting the First Amendment may give journalists too much freedom, he insisted that the media are promoting biased polls.
“The media isn’t just against me. They’re against all of you,” Mr. Trump said later in St. Augustine. “They’re against what we represent.”
But later that day, Mr. Trump launched a nightly Facebook Live program, a move that came amid speculation that he is plotting some sort of media channel should he lose the election.
In more bad news for Mr. Trump, a new GenForward poll shows young voters turning to Ms. Clinton now that the race has settled down.
With Mr. Trump on the defensive, Democrat Ms. Clinton worked to slam the door on his candidacy in swing state New Hampshire.
The former secretary of state campaigned alongside New Hampshire Gov. Maggie Hassan, who is running for the Senate, and Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren, who was merciless as she seized on recent revelations of Mr. Trump’s predatory sexual language and several allegations of sexual assault.
“I’ve got news for you, Donald: Women have had it with guys like you,” Ms. Warren said.
Mr. Trump has denied all the recent allegations, and on Monday in an interview with WGIR radio in New Hampshire he lashed out at former adult film performer Jessica Drake, who said Saturday that he had grabbed and kissed her without permission.
“Oh, I’m sure she’s never been grabbed before,” Mr. Trump said.
Mr. Trump’s electoral map is seen as bleak.
Mr. Trump’s campaign manager Kellyanne Conway outlined a path to 270 electoral votes that banks on victories in several key states, including Ohio.
Noticeably absent from the list was Pennsylvania, a state that a top adviser anonymously conceded was slipping away despite Mr. Trump’s aggressive courtship of the state’s white working class.
But at the same time, a group of Pennsylvania state representatives — including Daryl Metcalfe, RCranberry, and Greg Rothman, R-Cumberland — proclaimed their support for Mr. Trump Monday.
More than 60 GOP House members have now endorsed Mr. Trump, according to the Pennsylvania Republican Party.
Elsewhere, a poll from Dems trying to win Utah’s 4th district independent conservative presidential candidate Mr. McMullin leaping into first place there over Mr. Trump and tied with Ms. Clinton.
And a series of polls have shown Mr. Trump losing about half of the traditional Republican vote in the Beehive State to Mr. McMullin.
Florida was largely the focus Monday as in-person early voting began across 50 counties, including the state’s largest.
Early voting by mail has been underway for weeks. Ms. Clinton appears not only to be displaying strength in Florida but also in North Carolina, and she may be building an early vote advantage in Arizona and Colorado.
Mr. Trump, meanwhile, appears to be holding ground in Ohio, Iowa and Georgia, according to data compiled by the AP.
In other news, a report published Monday by the AP that Mr. Trump pocketed some of a $17 million insurance payment in 2005 for hurricane damage even though few can remember much damage; and video posted the same day by the British Telegraph newspaper appeared to show a Republican consultant with ties to Mr. Trump offering to disguise the source of contributions to a “super PAC” intended to aid Mr. Trump’s campaign.
Meanwhile, a report about Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe having donated to the campaign of the wife of an FBI official who oversaw the bureau’s investigation into Ms. Clinton’s use of a private email server while she was at the State Department was drawing attention from Mr. Trump.