The Trump Apocalypse Watch is a subjective daily estimate, using a scale of one to four horsemen, of how likely it is that Donald Trump will be elected president, thus triggering an apocalypse in which we all die.
July was a rough month for those concerned about the potential of a world-ending Trump presidency. FBI Director James Comey’s pointed criticism of Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email account for State Department correspondence seems to have set off a Trump poll surge that continued through the Republican National Convention. In recent days, though, heartening events have abounded.
Clinton’s poll numbers are trending up post-DNC. She’s back up to a five-point lead in HuffPo’s head-to-head polling aggregator.
The DNC, and Clinton’s keynote speech, polled much better than the RNC and Trump’s speech. Details on that Gallup info are here; one would expect that as a consequence her convention bounce will be bigger than Trump’s was.
Trump is being self-destructive. We’re on Day 4 of headlines about the GOP nominee’s hostile comments about the bereaved parents of an Iraq war Purple Heart recipient, and he’s now started to pick feuds with local fire departments in the cities where he’s holding rallies. (Really!)
Let’s lower the danger level!
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