A new poll shows the president ial frontrunners are tied. Donald trump would get 36 of the vote. Peter barnes is with me now. So peter, im looking at a third number, a sizable 22 would choose another candidate. How does that fit in . Well, it means, it suggestses, deirdre, to me we might see a repeat of the 19 92 election of trumps and clintons numbers hold here and the other candidates. Civics 101, the president is elected based on the number of electoral votes a candidate gets not a popular vote. A candidate can win all of the electoral votes in a state without winning a majority of the popular votes in the state. In 1992 bill clinton got 43 of the popular vote nationally, but won 370 electoral votes, a hundred more than he needed to beat george h. W. Bush and ross perot. Assuming people dont want another candidate dont decide on trump and clinton by election day, and trump and clinton act like theyll be facing off in november. Trump escalating attack on clinton at the rally in. New
Crews say this dam will likely give way at anytime. That likely means flash flooding downstream 25 homes have already been evacuated and across texas and oklahoma and the search for the missing grows more urgent. National guard troops scour piles of debris along a riverbank searching for victims swept away by floodwaters. Soldiers and emergency crews and neighbors using city utility vehicles and heavy equipment to pull people from the floodwaters that swallowed cars and homes in minutes. The relentless search taking a grim toll. 18 people confirmed dead and 13 missing, and each hour of hope fades hope for those that vanished in the chaos. The aftermath of deadly breaking floodwaters in houston, texas, revealed this morning. More than 11 inches of rain fell in a matter of hours monday night into tuesday. A wall of water rising with frightening speed, leaving thousands traveling in their vehicles racing to escape. Turn around dont drown. Rows of vehicle left abandon on a houston highway,
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President ial candidates donald trump and senator ted cruz is over. With less than three weeks until the iowa caucuses, trump and cruise stole the show with the first debate of 2016. Both candidates hitting hard. Today trump says cruzs attacks though were inappropriate. He came at me last nyse inappropriate. And i hit him very heart. And i hit him very hard. But i had no idea hes going take it that way. But hes got a problem. Hes got figure out the problem. And a lot of people arent going like even though there were seven candidates on stage it felt like more like a two man show as trump and cruz went head to head. Im not going to use your mothers birth against you. Okay. Because it wouldnt work. You have a big lawsuit over your head while you are running. Who the hell knows if you can even serve in office. Im not going to be taking legal advice from donald trump. You dont have to. Not a lot of conservatives come out of manhattan. Im just saying. That was a very insulting statement. To