The documents, which total 58 pages, do not seem to provide any major revelations about Clinton’s actions – though they paint her and her staff as either unaware of or unconcerned with State Department policies on email use. Voters started questioning the veracity of media outlets long ago and today it is at a stage where they don’t trust them.
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Where’s the part about her flying to Benghazi to kill those four Americans before founding ISIS?
Biden, who dissatisfied Democrats unsuccessfully tried to draft into the presidential primary, is a key asset for Clinton in trying to woo working-class voters in the Rust Belt to back the former secretary of state over Trump.
Vice President Joe Biden gave speeches at union halls in the Democrat-rich Youngstown and Cleveland areas for Clinton and walked door-to-door in a Youngstown neighborhood, greeting and hugging residents after visiting a county fair. In his response, according to the FBI, Powell told Clinton that if it became “public” that she was using a BlackBerry to “do business”, the emails could become “official records [s] and subject to the law”.
“Events happen, scandals take place, but usually the basic dynamics of the campaign are in place by then”, says Princeton historian Julian Zelizer. But Trump’s numbers have not seen equal increases.
The close polls in Nevada and Florida have prompted Clinton’s allies to begin spending money in those states targeting Hispanic voters. But advisers say he’s more receptive to his new leadership team’s more scripted approach, mostly because it’s coincided with a tightening in the public polls he monitors obsessively.
And, Trump now gets the nod from voters on protecting the country from terrorism (41 to 40 percent), handling the economy (42 to 40 percent) and being honest and trustworthy (33 to 27 percent) when Clinton had the advantage on those traits in July.
This year’s election is approaching, and one thing I keep hearing is how terrible our choices are.
Her campaign said the average donation in March was $50, a signal that she is drawing from small-dollar donors and not just those who write checks worth thousands of dollars. But still, she ought to be doing even better.
The first televised debate on September 26 could be decisive, as could any major news events.
Just for the record, TV journalists tend to ask bad questions, even if they’re better looking.
“That could reflect deep dissatisfaction with Trump, or just the fact that the vote was split 17 ways, so whoever the eventual victor was, a lot of people wouldn’t be pleased”, Huckabee writes.
The next stop for Trump is Detroit, where blacks make up some 83 percent of the population.
Trump has made immigration – including his plans to build a border wall and deport people in the country illegally- a central issue of his unconventional presidential bid.
It is time we heard from someone new. But Clinton aides are monitoring movement toward a pair of third party candidates, Libertarian Gary Johnson and the Green Party’s Jill Stein.
It’s unclear how much the party will do to help Trump beyond efforts by the Republican National Committee and Trump’s campaign.
At The Week, I explained why it’s perfectly fine to vote against the candidate you hate and not for the candidate you like.
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GOP pleas to protect the party’s congressional majorities so they can block Clinton will likely grow if Trump continues trailing in polls as Election Day nears.
