Whom do we believe in this fractured election year?
It’s looking more and more – and with good reason – that ordinary people and voters are believing Hillary Clinton and the Democrats who support her.
Polls – those things that Donald Trump touts and believes when they are in his favor – showed last week that even red-block Georgia may be leaning blue in the presidential race.
An Atlanta Journal-Constitution poll last week showed Clinton with a 4-point lead. Another poll released Monday by JMC Analytics increased Clinton’s Georgia polling lead to 7 points – 44 to 37 percent. The newest poll also shows Libertarian nominee Gary Johnson taking 7 percent.
But back to candidate believability: For months now, we’ve seen Trump talk about deporting 11 million Hispanic immigrants and talk about building a wall between Mexico and America with no more specifics than a vague assertion that Mexico will pay for it because, according to him, Mexico sends us their rapists and drug dealers. For months, we heard him talk about barring Muslims from entering the United States on the basis of their religion, and in recent weeks we’ve heard him disparage the Muslim parents of an American war hero who was killed in Iraq.