{"id":109278,"date":"2016-10-31T08:46:42","date_gmt":"2016-10-31T16:46:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=109278"},"modified":"2016-10-31T08:46:42","modified_gmt":"2016-10-31T16:46:42","slug":"trump-took-lead-before-fbi-announcement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=109278","title":{"rendered":"Trump Took Lead Before FBI Announcement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.dickmorris.com\/trump-took-lead-fbi-announcement\/\">Dick Morris writes<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>History will undoubtedly say that the Comey announcement that the FBI is reopening its investigation into Hillary\u2019s emails that turned the 2016 race around and brought Hillary down. But that\u2019s a false narrative. And to grasp what is happening, we must put it aside and concentrate on the real reasons Trump began to overtook Hillary in the week leading up to Comey\u2019s announcement on Friday, October 28th.<br \/>\nPolling suggests that Trump\u2019s gains predate Comey\u2019s announcement. Most dramatic was the heavily Democratic biased ABC poll that began the week giving Hillary a 12 point lead and ended the week with Mrs. Clinton clinging to a one point margin. Most ABC interviews were conducted well before Comey spoke.<br \/>\nSo what happened?<br \/>\n\u2022 Trump\u2019s negative ads began to hit in swing states. Until this week, Hillary\u2019s attacks on Donald had been dominating the airwaves for months. But, during the past ten days or so, his negative ads \u2014 devastatingly effective \u2014 began to make their impact felt.<br \/>\n\u2022 ObamaCare premiums increases began to hit. While the full impact of the price hikes won\u2019t be felt until after November 1st \u2014 in time for the election \u2014 the early notices that they would go up by an average of 25% with many even higher, had a big impact on the race. And Trump moved adroitly to exploit the increases in his speeches.<br \/>\n\u2022 Before the Comey bombshell, the drip-drip-drip of WikiLeaks emails had been taking a daily toll on Hillary\u2019s vote share. The coup de grace was the memo from Doug Band that was written in response to Chelsea\u2019s accusation that she had not done enough for her father. Stung by the first daughter\u2019s charges, Band ticks off the deals that led to a $60 million personal profit for Bill Clinton, a list that vindicates the direst of the pay-for-play accusations.<br \/>\n\u2022 Hillary\u2019s illness prevented her from campaigning more vigorously and her campaign staff, obtuse as ever, failed to give her new issues and material to use on hitting Donald. Once they ran out of abused women to complain about Trump, they had nothing to say.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dick Morris writes: History will undoubtedly say that the Comey announcement that the FBI is reopening its investigation into Hillary\u2019s emails that turned the 2016 race around and brought Hillary down. But that\u2019s a false narrative. And to grasp what &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=109278\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21791],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-109278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-america"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109278","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=109278"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109278\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":109279,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109278\/revisions\/109279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=109278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=109278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=109278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}