It must be tough to be a Trump backer these days. There are a few polls like this one that show him neck 'n' neck with Hillary or even a point up…but clearly he and his campaign are behaving like they believe the vast majority of surveys. I don't think there are any sites tracking the state polls that don't show Clinton with at least a near-lock on the Electoral College and there are many that say she's got it with 10+ point advantages in enough states.
It's also getting tougher to define what it is that he stands for and to say with a straight face that he's a straight talker. I thought the one issue on which he'd never budge or backpedal was immigration…and I don't think anyone is clear as to what his position is on that at the moment. It seems to vary from hour to hour depending on which audience he's addressing.
The other day when Trump was addressing the imaginary black voters who will swing to him en masse and boost him from 2% black support to — oh, I dunno, maybe 3%? — he was shouting at them, "What the hell do you have to lose?" I keep thinking that that's his new mantra for campaigning. No matter what insane, groundless accusation someone can invent about Hillary Clinton, he might as well hurl it because what the hell does he have to lose?
It looks like despite some waffling, he'll be in the debates after all because, you know, what the hell does he have to lose?