MARSHALLED on stage at the climax of a debate or rally, the Trump family can seem otherworldly, even faintly sinister. In contrast to the everyman image many politicians try to project—the guy like you, with whom you might enjoy a beer—the Republican nominee’s clan is impossibly well-clad and -coiffed. That collective image is of a piece with the paterfamilias’s implicit promise: not so much to represent the nation as to redeem it, like some baggy-suited Superman. An event on October 26th in Marietta, Georgia, which featured Ivanka Trump and her less-deployed sister Tiffany, exemplified his offsprings’ role in his appeal and his campaign.
Mr Trump will probably win in Georgia, but victory isn’t nearly as assured as it ought to be, or might have been for a different Republican candidate. A recent poll for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution makes the reason for the uncertainty clear: leading narrowly in the state overall, he trails 48% to 37% among women, many of whom, like others across the country, were distressed by the videotape from 2005 in which Mr Trump brags about committing sexual assault, and by the subsequent slew of accusers who say he molested...Continue reading
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