Donald Trump continues to slide in the polls as controversies mount
With a little more than three weeks until Election Day, Hillary Clinton holds a strong and steady lead in the polls as Donald Trump's numbers continue to fall across the country.
A week after the second presidential debate and the former secretary of state has a 5.5 percent lead nationally -- 47.7 percent to Trump's 42.2 percent -- according to the latest Real Clear Politics average.
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Trump has experienced a considerable drop in the polls throughout the month of October; a month that has seen the billionaire businessman face one controversy after another. As October began, The New York Times leaked Trump's 1995 tax records that suggest he avoided paying federal taxes for years. A week later a video was published in which Trump bragged about groping women. In the ensuing days, multiple women came forward to accuse the real-estate mogul of inappropriately touching them throughout the years.
According to FiveThirtyEight's Election Forecast, Trump entered October with a 32.7 percent chance of winning the 2016 election. But after just two weeks, Trump now stands at a dismal 13.4 percent chance of victory according to polls and only 11.2 percent chance if the election were held today, showing that perhaps even The Donald isn't immune to such a mounting list of controversies.
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While prediction markets have seen Clinton's chances to become the next president increase over the past few weeks, the number of voters who officially support her has hovered around 47 to 48 percent throughout October. Given Trump's falling numbers, some have wondered why Clinton has been unable to pull away in any significant way.
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The former secretary of state's steady popularity is likely due in part to the slew of negative news emerging from multiple email drops released by WikiLeaks. The emails were hacked as part of a major breach of Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta's email account.
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Trump has stated that the WikiLeaks email drops have received "very little pick-up by the dishonest media," claiming it shows a "rigged system!"
Clinton and Trump will square off one last time in Las Vegas on Wednesday for the final presidential debate moderated by FOX News anchor Chris Wallace.
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