Trump's support has taken a battering - click HERE. Trump is 7 points down and Clinton is 7 points up. Given that Trump has boasted about every poll which put him in a good light, he isn't well placed to say he doesn't care about polls.
The fact remains - he has taken a beating even In the wake of a Muslim shooting 49 people to death. How could that happen to a conservative politician?
Trump also seems to waste another benefit conservative politicians enjoy in the public's mind. They are generally thought of as more likely to rein in debt and deficits. That is questionable as they are obsessed with cutting taxes which increases deficits if they don't have the will or ability to offset them with spending cuts. But the non-partisan Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget estimates Trump will push National debt to 127% of GDP by 2026 compared to 87% for Clinton - click HERE. Of course, it's difficult to make predictions when Trump doesn't release any specific policies. For instance, do you assume Trump will build a really wall and, if so, do you assume Mexico will foot the bill for it? But this analysis makes it hard for Trump to run a scare campaign about Clinton spending the US into crippling debt in the same way as the LNP does here. Yet another reason he is losing libertarian voters. They are socially progressive but economically conservative. He loses on both scores.
The fact remains - he has taken a beating even In the wake of a Muslim shooting 49 people to death. How could that happen to a conservative politician?
Trump also seems to waste another benefit conservative politicians enjoy in the public's mind. They are generally thought of as more likely to rein in debt and deficits. That is questionable as they are obsessed with cutting taxes which increases deficits if they don't have the will or ability to offset them with spending cuts. But the non-partisan Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget estimates Trump will push National debt to 127% of GDP by 2026 compared to 87% for Clinton - click HERE. Of course, it's difficult to make predictions when Trump doesn't release any specific policies. For instance, do you assume Trump will build a really wall and, if so, do you assume Mexico will foot the bill for it? But this analysis makes it hard for Trump to run a scare campaign about Clinton spending the US into crippling debt in the same way as the LNP does here. Yet another reason he is losing libertarian voters. They are socially progressive but economically conservative. He loses on both scores.