Dems Sweating Revealing New Polls

Happy Monday morning, Friends,

Two new polls in the last two days show the race between the two most-hated presidential candidates in U.S. history is in a dead heat.

What should be disturbing to the Democrats about this is that Donald Trump has closed an 11-point gap in a month and is on his way up. Hillary Clinton is moving in the opposite direction.

Granted, Trump got a bump when he became the GOP's presumptive nominee, and the Democratic picture is still unsettled and contentious.  But there's another number that the party can't afford to ignore.

Trump is winning the Independent vote by more than five points--a healthy gap in a general election.

With the Democratic primary possibly going until the bitter end on June 14th, most Independents are solidly clinging to Sanders. But this morning's poll shows that if the election were held today, a significant bloc of them would vote for Trump, not Clinton.

Obviously, nothing negative The Donald says sticks to him. I caught the Dem's anti-Trump commercial twice on TV here in Las Vegas yesterday, which has women mouthing Trump himself hurling misogynistic insults.

I personally thought it was hilarious, not shocking, and inadvertently reinforced what his supporters like so much about him. It won't change any minds.

So Debbie Wasserman Schultz was standing on the edge of a cliff,
staring into the abyss, and hissing "Sanders" over and over...

As I said earlier, if Hillary is the Democratic nominee, Donald Trump will tear her to shreds. Thanks to the Independent vote, he will be the next president.

Trump's already got the numbers trending in his favor, and he's demonstrated for decades that he's an expert marketeer who knows how to move traffic to his brand.

Why should we have any reason to think this business venture would go differently for him?

The Democrats have only one weapon left in their arsenal that can stop Donald Trump--Bernie Sanders.

The relationship between the party and the recalcitrant candidate can go in any number of directions, but the bottom line is that the party must figure out how to hold on to Bernie's voters. That means embracing him in some important way that appeases his followers.

It may not seem so, but we are at a pivotal moment in history. How Debbie Wasserman Schultz's Democratic leadership conducts itself  in the next several weeks will impact us for generations.

You read that here, Friends.