Paul Krugman: How Hillary Clinton is being gored (as in Al Gored).
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Mr Trump, the Republican nominee, is set to campaign in Virginia and North Carolina on Tuesday, two critical states in his path to the presidency.
New revelations from notes released by the Federal Bureau of Investigation from its July interview with Mrs Clinton about her email use showed that she said she did not recall specific training about how to handle classified information, and that she was unaware that confidential material was marked with a “C”.
For his part, Trump needs to do more than simply disqualify Clinton.
Clinton was arriving in OH and IL aboard a new campaign plane emblazoned with her slogan, “Stronger Together”.
The airplanes of Trump and his running mate, Mike Pence, were parked on the tarmac as Clinton and her vice presidential pick, Tim Kaine, arrived in separate planes.
She answered questions for more than 22 minutes on several topics, including tensions with Russian Federation over accusations of cyber-espionage.
Clinton’s campaign has long argued that Trump is overestimating the number of voters willing to switch from voting Democratic in presidential elections to Republican.
DETROW: And actually, Audie, at one point, I was in a bus with other reporters, covering Trump, and we had to pull over because Hillary Clinton’s motorcade zipped by us so. But maybe we’re better off switching sports and just calling it the home stretch – with Hillary Clinton in the lead, but not exactly pulling away. Jim Henson with the Texas Politics Project said that while it may be hard to imagine that the race is actually tied in Texas, he thinks that the idea that it’s a single digit gap right now is something people will have to take seriously.
Under Clinton, “people can pour across the border and it doesn’t matter who the people are”.
It’s easy to imagine a former Sanders supporter who is torn between reluctantly supporting Clinton (and thereby helping defeat Trump) or supporting Stein more enthusiastically (and potentially helping Trump).
Trump has been helped by what his campaign saw as a positive week last week in which he made a quick trip to Mexico, appearing side by side with Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto, and visited a black church in Detroit. He told union members Trump will cost jobs and divide the country.
“Incident after incident proves again and again: Hillary Clinton lacks the judgment, the temperament and the moral character to lead this nation”, he said.
Even before promising a huge boost in military spending, Trump’s plans to cut taxes, expand infrastructure spending and leave untouched entitlement programs such as Social Security already threaten to add trillions of dollars to the federal deficit.
While Trump still trails Clinton in many battleground states where the election will likely be decided, he has drawn close to even with her in some national polls and even inched ahead of the Democrat in others. It could be one of his last moments to really shake things up and get back in this race in the polls. When a reporter asked what she thought of Trump campaign manager Kellyanne Conway’s comment that Clinton was “allergic to the media”, Clinton said of Trump, “I’m allergic to him”. “He is getting 14 percent from OH voters and how that cohort eventually votes could be critical in this swing state – and in the nation”, said Peter A. Brown, assistant director of the Quinnipiac University Poll.
As for preparation, Trump said he does not believe in doing mock debates, as is tradition for many candidates.
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CORNISH: Tamara Keith and Scott Detrow literally crossing paths in OH – the Clinton and Trump campaigns.
