While Hillary Clinton continues to show she has nothing fresh in her non-stop personal attack against Trump, terrorism on American soil the last couple of days has her emulating Donald Trump now.
Trump, meanwhile, speaking in Estero, Florida on September 19 said the following:
"These attacks, and many others, were made possible because of our extremely open immigration system, which fails to properly vet and screen the individuals and families who are coming into our country."
"Attack after attack, from 9-11 to San Bernardino, we have seen how failures to screen who is entering the United States puts all of our citizens…at danger."
"My opponent has the most open borders policy of anyone ever to seek the Presidency. As Secretary of State she allowed thousands of criminal aliens to be released into our communities because their home countries wouldn't take them back."
"Now, she wants at 550% increase in Syrian refugees - above the high numbers we already have. Altogether, her plan would bring in 650,000 refugees…with no effective way to screen them or vett them - law enforcement says there is no way."
"You can't have vetting if you don't look at ideology. and Hillary Clinton refuses to consider an applicants world view and thus their likelihood of being recruited into the terror cause at some some later day."
A recurring theme in Trump's speeches is the need for extreme vetting of immigrants. But now, after the latest terrorism attacks, Hillary Clinton decides it's time to put an emphasis on a copycat term she has previously used, called "tough vetting," and outlines steps similar to Trump's that she will take against terrorism. Then she goes on to make the ridiculous accusation that Donald Trump's rhetoric and language, which she is emulating, "is giving aid and comfort to our adversaries."
Count on Clinton to continue her resurrected "tough" talk, now that polls show her trailing Trump.
The USC Dornsife/LA Times Presidential Election Daybreak Poll, after peaking out for Clinton on August 14, with her leading 46.3% to 41.6%, showed a decline for Clinton, bottoming out on August 31 with Trump leading 45.3% to 41.9%.
As I pointed out on September 5, her campaign was failing. But back on the campaign trail after nearly a month off, Ms. Clinton began to rebound, and their poll had her leading 45.9% to 43.6% on September 11.
However, as the news spread of Clinton having medical issues during a 9-11 memorial service, complete with a video of her being carried into a van after a total collapse, the polling took a pronounced turn to Trump's advantage, and by Monday, September 19, Trump had a 6.7% lead, 47.8% to 41.1%
The USC/LA Times poll hadn't shown such a large lead for Trump since he surged to a 7.3% lead, 47.4% to 40.1%, after the Republican National Convention.
The same trend was shown in other polls as well. In a September 15 4-way poll with Trump, Clinton, Johnson and Stein, Ramussen Reports had Trump ahead by 2 after having shown Clinton ahead by 4 on September 8. A Reuters/Ipsos 4-way poll on September showed Clinton and Trump tied, compared to Clinton leading by 2 on September 7.
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Breaking it down state-by-state, the September 5 map on electoral-vote.com had current polling giving 297 electoral votes to Clinton and 197 to Trump, with 44 electoral votes going to neither. On September 19, their map had shift toward Trump - the lead for Clinton only 274 to 258, with Nevada's 6 electoral votes unassigned.
But a series of statewide polls on September 14-15 showed Trump leading in several of the states that electoral-vote.com has in the "Barely Democrat" category.
On the 15th, Emerson had Trump up by 4 points in Colorado and Suffolk had Trump by 3% in Ohio. Adding only those states to Trump's total on November 8 would boost Trump's total to 287, 17 over the 270 needed for victory.
On September 14, Bloomberg and CNN/ORC had Trump leading by 5% in Florida. Monmouth had Trump by 2% in Nevada. Add those electoral votes and it would be a 322-216 electoral victory for Trump.
While these are only current polls and not actual results on November 8, with the mainstream media now calling the election a toss-up, and that after consistently saying Trump was hopelessly behind, I see it as a clear lead for Trump in the polls.
Rolf Yungclas is a recently retired newspaper editor from southwest Kansas who has been speaking out on the issues of the day in newspapers and online for over 15 years
