With two months left before the presidential election on November 8, a major poll released Tuesday morning by the Cable News Network and Opinion Research Corporation “revealed that the “prohibitive favorite” – Hillary Clinton – is down by two points nationally to one of the worst presidential candidates since the advent of the indoor flush toilet: Donald J. Trump”, according to an article posted on the Politico website.
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Kaine, in his first major policy speech since being tapped as Clinton’s running mate, drew a contrast between how Trump would approach U.S. relations with Russian Federation and Clinton’s track record as head of the U.S. State Department from 2009 to 2013, during Obama’s first term as president.
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In a time of unparalleled political polarization, Clinton and Trump are also the most likely to provoke partisan ire. Unwilling to allow Trump to modify his immigration stances, she said his address later that night in Arizona amounted to a “doubling down on his absurd plan to send a deportation force to round up 16 million people”. Trump is a hard candidate to cover because it’s expected that, by the time someone becomes a credible presidential contender, that someone will have laid out a lot of policy plans; but Trump can count the number ideas he has on the fingers of one stubby hand. Clinton now holds a almost five-point lead over Trump nationally. The RealClearPolitics.com average of Florida polls over the past month shows Clinton holding a lead of 2.7 percent – within the margin of error for most polls.
“There will be the Shiites who will be the Trump populists who will believe that the election was stolen, that no matter how badly he loses that he was stabbed in the back by their own party leaders. Trump has chutzpah – no doubt about it – and he attempted his most audacious move yet, one of the greatest switcheroos in the annals of modern campaigning”, the correspondent asserted.
“That, Donald Trump, is what American honor” looks like, she said. “I guess I am most set aback by their blatant support of and even campaigning for Hillary Clinton”. In an interview with radio host and cable news commentator Hugh Hewitt, Chaffetz said that at least two hearings were coming, with the first, on the Freedom of Information Act, scheduled for this coming Thursday….
Mexico’s President Enrique Pena Nieto and Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump shake hands.
It’s not a sign of a healthy republic when the college-educated and the unmatriculated have such starkly different views about the future of the country, but here we are.
Excerpts of Kaine’s speech, which was billed by Clinton’s campaign as a major national security address, painted Trump as dishonest, clueless and unsafe when it comes to national security.
He says Hillary Clinton, like any president, needs a “solid partner” in the White House.
“Our veterans deserve better”, reads a line at the end of the ad, which is airing in Ohio, Florida, Iowa, Nevada and Pennsylvania.
Hillary Clinton on Tuesday apologized for her misunderstanding of the State Department’s email classification system, adding that she takes the issue “seriously”. “Whether it’s me or somebody else because by that time we’ll have a secure border, we’ll have a wall”, Trump said.
Trump’s campaign didn’t let Clinton’s criticism go without a response.
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Meanwhile, the Clinton campaign will continue to focus on the Interstate 4 corridor in the remaining nine weeks of the campaign, beginning Wednesday, when Bill Clinton speaks in Orlando.
