Voters Aren’t Buying Donald Trump’s Denials Or Excuses

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by Natalie Jackson at the Huffington Post

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/voters-arent-buying-donald-trumps-denials-or-excuses_us_5803b1cee4b0e8c198a8b194

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Despite Donald Trump’s repeated denials of nefarious behavior toward women and his media-blaming tactics, a new ABC/Washington Post poll shows that nearly 7 in 10 voters think Trump probably did make unwanted advances on women.

Nearly half ― 48 percent ― of Republicans agree. Only 23 percent say Trump probably hasn’t made unwanted advances on women, and 29 percent don’t have an opinion. Among independents, 71 percent think he has made such advances and 13 percent disagree. Not surprisingly, 87 percent of Democrats believe Trump probably followed through on his words captured in the 2005 discussion caught on tape with Billy Bush.

A majority of registered voters think that conversation goes beyond “locker room talk.” Fifty-two percent say the comments go farther than how most men talk about women, and 57 percent doubt the sincerity of Trump’s apology.

At the same time, most say the tape itself doesn’t make them less likely to vote for Trump. Presumably for Democrats that’s because they were already not voting for him, and for Republicans because they don’t want to see a Democrat win the presidency.



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