Escudero shrugs off Leni, Marcos tie

CITY OF CAUAYAN – The stage is set for a minority president and vice president, said vice presidential candidate Senator Francis “Chiz” Escudero, who trailed Representative Leni Robredo and Senator Ferdinand Marcos Jr. in the latest Social Weather Stations (SWS) survey.

“The truth is it is too hard to know who will win in these (presidential and vice presidential) races,” he said here Tuesday.

Escudero and presidential candidate Sen. Grace Poe were in Isabela for speaking tours in Santiago City, the Isabela State University-Main Campus in Echague town, and the University of La Salette in Santiago City.

Speaking at a news conference, Escudero likened the campaign’s last days as “more than the last two minutes” of a basketball game. He said the late actor Fernando Poe Jr. was lagging behind then President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo in the surveys during the 2004 elections, but Poe received more votes had “magic [not] robbed him of his victory.”

In 2010, Mar Roxas was leading in surveys for vice president but he was defeated by Vice President Jejomar Binay, the senator said.