They un-rigged the polls!
by digby
Trump's back to reading his poll numbers again:
Donald Trump appears to have rekindled the flame for his on-again, off-again relationship with the polls, falling back in love with them just as they show him narrowing Hillary Clinton’s lead in the race for the White House.
Trump was quick to tout a fresh ABC News/Washington Post tracking poll released Tuesday, showing him leading by a single percentage point, 46 percent to 45 percent, with just one week to go until Election Day. It’s the same tracking poll that put the Manhattan billionaire down 12 points earlier this month and his comeback story was cause for celebration on Twitter Tuesday morning.
“Wow, now leading in @ABC /@washingtonpost Poll 46 to 45. Gone up 12 points in two weeks, mostly before the Crooked Hillary blow-up!” Trump tweeted just before 9 a.m. Monday, a sharp turn from the weeks he spent on the campaign trail decrying "rigged" polls and suggesting that the election might be stolen out from under him by widespread voter fraud.
Clinton’s “blow-up” has picked up steam in recent weeks amid the daily trickle of emails hacked from the personal account of her campaign chairman John Podesta and as news broke that premiums on Obamacare health insurance policies will spike next year. But the Democratic nominee’s campaign was pushed fully back onto its heels Friday when FBI Director James Comey wrote a letter to Congress disclosing that the bureau is reviewing fresh evidence pertaining to Clinton’s use of a private email server during her tenure as secretary of state.
That announcement from Comey delivered to Trump a powerful rhetorical weapon with which to hammer Clinton in the campaign’s final days, bolstering his “crooked Hillary” talking points and re-raising questions about her ethics.
Well played James Comey, well played.
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