The poll’s assistant director, Peter A. Brown, said: “The obvious takeaway from these numbers is that Donald Trump has staged a comeback from his post-Democratic convention lows”.
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“They know they can count on me to be the kind of commander in chief who will protect our country and our troops, and they know they cannot count on Donald Trump”, Clinton said en route to Florida.
Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton waves as she arrives to speak at the 49th Annual Salute to Labor at Illiniwek Park Riverfront in Hampton, Ill. on September 5, 2016.
North Carolina, which 2012 GOP nominee Mitt Romney won four years ago and has been carried by Republicans in eight out of the last 10 presidential elections, appears to be a virtual tossup at this point.
At one point, in a sign of the state’s importance, Mrs Clinton’s and Mr Trump’s planes sat side-by-side on the tarmac in Cleveland, though the nominees did not cross paths. Trump has planned a smaller ad buy, starting this week.
Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton have taken their bitter fight for the White House to the battleground state of OH for Labor Day, mingling with voters at a fair, a parade and a brewery as the race enters its final, frenzied two months.
Mrs Clinton, travelling with her press corps for the first time on a new plane emblazoned with her campaign slogan, “Stronger together”, said on Monday she had enjoyed the “last moment before the mad dash” to the finish line and that she was “more than ready” for the next nine weeks.
“We’re going to make that decision into the future”, Trump said. Peña Nieto recalled differently, saying he stated at the top of the discussion that Mexico would not be paying for any such wall. Trump said the Mexican president violated some “ground rules” by admitting that the two did actually discuss payment of his proposed border wall between the two countries, but added, “that’s ok”.
“I’ve seen people do so much prep work that when they get out there they can’t speak”, he said.
Earlier in the day, Trump attacked Clinton’s energy level, noting she hasn’t followed his aggressive traveling schedule and questioning whether she had the stamina to help bring jobs back to America. I think if she went to Mexico she would have had a total failure. 26 in NY.
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Trump told reporters he does plan to take part in all three presidential debates, joking that only a “hurricane” or “natural disaster” would prevent him from attending.
