US election countdown: The final push
Political Fix
Financial Times
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🗓️ 3 November 2016
⏱️ 18 minutes
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| 0:25.7 | Head to octopusevo.'s U.S. election countdown podcast. I'm Sam Fleming here in |
| 0:41.6 | Washington and I'm joined by my colleagues Sean Donnan and Courtney Weaver |
| 0:45.9 | Sean and Courtney hi hi so we have less than one week to go into election day next Tuesday and Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump have been |
| 0:54.8 | furiously hitting the campaign trail as they face the final few days of campaigning |
| 1:00.2 | before the big day. Now the fascinating thing that we've seen over the past few |
| 1:04.7 | days is the narrowing of Hillary Clinton's lead in a number of polls both |
| 1:08.9 | nationally but also in key battleground states following the FBI director's decision to disclose an inquiry |
| 1:16.7 | into further Clinton related emails. |
| 1:19.3 | So Courtney, why don't we go first to you and you can explain exactly what's happened here? |
| 1:24.0 | So basically what we've seen is a dramatic shift in the electoral landscape. |
| 1:29.0 | Just two weeks ago we thought that Clinton was sort of heading to a blowout win. |
| 1:33.2 | She was looking at expanding into traditionally Republican states such as Georgia, such as Arizona. |
| 1:38.8 | And now what we're seeing is her campaign has really been forced to defend states that were Democratic. |
| 1:44.5 | And the reason for this is you've seen nationally the polls tighten quite significantly. |
| 1:49.2 | We had one poll, a Washington Post ABC news poll this week, that showed that Trump was actually one point ahead of Clinton, |
| 1:55.3 | whereas the average of poll shows, you know, Clinton now just two points ahead of Trump versus six points just two weeks ago. |
| 2:01.7 | And basically what's happened is you've seen the focus shift from Trump |
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