Donald Trumpās Campaign Knows Heās Losing
The campaignās internal models show him trailing Hillary Clinton.
With less than two weeks until Election Day,
Donald Trump is, for the most part, still insisting to his supporters that heās in the lead.
While he
conceded in one radio interview Monday that he was āsomewhat behind in the polls,ā Trump
said the same day that āI really believe we are winningā and
claimed that āDemocrats are making up phony polls.ā
Members of his campaign, though, are openly admitting that the businessman is lagging behind.
Trumpās campaign manager, pollster Kellyanne Conway, also conceded that the GOP nominee was trailing,
saying Sunday āwe are behind.ā
Although Trump says he
no longer believes the polls, his internal data apparently mirrors what publicly available surveys are showing.
The campaignās San Antonio-based research team is spending $100,000 a week on polling and is running simulations of the election,
according to Bloomberg Businessweek ā and itās coming up with results that
look like most of the public forecasts, all of which give Democratic nominee
Hillary Clinton an 85 percent or higher chance of victory.
āNate Silverās results have been similar to ours,ā Brad Parscale, Trumpās digital director, told Bloomberg, āexcept they lag by a week or two because heās relying on public polls.ā
Silverās website, FiveThirtyEight,
currently gives Clinton a nearly 7-point national lead and shows her on track to win about 338 electoral votes to Trumpās 199.
HuffPost Pollsterās average currently shows Trump about 8 points behind in a national head-to-head race, with Clinton holding substantial leads in states like Pennsylvania, New Hampshire and Virginia and a smaller edge in battlegrounds such as Nevada and Florida.
Chart: Trump Camp Smells Defeat
Sounds like it's time for the fat lady to sing.