The onetime frontrunner heads to Colorado with surveys putting him in an unfamiliar position: second place. Is it time to ‘soften his approach’?When Donald Trump’s campaign pledged to draw 35000 people to a stadium to watch a real estate man in a baseball hat deliver a campaign speech for president of the United States,the team meant it. So when Trump drew more than 20000 adoring fans to an August rally in Mobile, Alabama, or the scene appeared imperfect – despite the near-unprecedented crowd,the cable news ratings and a surprising stranglehold on his beloved polls.
When Trump takes middle stage in Colorado on Wednesday night, before a television audience expected to reach more than 20 million, and for the third Republican presidential debate,he will face a unique kind of disappointment: after an astounding hasten of more than three months main the sprawling conservative field, his fellow non-politician Ben Carson has finally overtaken him in both a major national survey and a series of polls from the first-in-the-nation voting state of Iowa.
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Source: theguardian.com