With Democrat presidential candidate Hillary Clinton heavily favored to win the White House, her campaign is now looking past her contest with Donald Trump to help the down-ballot Democrats in the Senate and the now Republican-controlled House. This after several scientific polls during the last stretch of the US presidential campaign season predicted Hillary Clinton's win by a wide margin, such as the New York Times, which called Clinton 93 percent to Republican nominee Donald Trump's 7.
Path to the White House
Hillary Clinton is handily winning over several states as well, including longtime Republican strongholds Utah and Arizona. And with Donald Trump repeatedly threatening to contest the electoral results, rallying an overwhelming Democratic victory would greatly offset any attempt to sweep the White House under Hillary Clinton's rug.
According to Hillary Clinton's campaign, she isn't even thinking about responding to Donald Trump anymore, and is focusing solely on helping down-ballot Democrats win seats in the Senate and the the House. According to ABC News, her victory and her goals of uniting the nation will be greatly determined by the results of Congressional elections. She would need a Democratic gain of four and 30 seats in the Senate and House to retake the majority, respectively.
Could Clinton lose the White House?
The odds of Hillary Clinton losing, however, remains a very real possibility, albeit a marginal one. Donald Trump's campaign manager, Kellyanne Conway, had acknowledged that they were behind, but refused to be discounted from the US presidential elections just yet.
Several analysts attributed Hillary Clinton's wide lead as buoyed largely by the general dislike for Donald Trump. This is caused in part by Donald Trump's lewd comments about women, his unfounded allegations of a "rigged" elections, as well as his refusal to accept the election's results, according to a poll tracker from ABC News.
As it stands, however, there's very little to do against the juggernaut of Hillary Clinton's campaign to the White House. Unless Donald Trump and his team brings out the evidence that would falsify sexual assault claims against him as he has promised or anything else powerful enough to flip the numbers to his favor, then he'll likely see himself at the conceding end on Nov. 8.
