Clinton, who lives in Chappaqua, Westchester County, was helped in the poll by strong support in New York City, a Democratic stronghold, where 63 percent of voters support her, according to Quinnipiac. If Trump were to win he would be 70 when elected, an age that would make him the most elderly president at his first inauguration in US history.
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While the FBI stopped short of recommending charges against the presumptive Democratic nominee over her e-mail scandal, Mr Christie, himself a former federal prosecutor, went into attack dog mode on the second day of the Republican National Convention in Cleveland. “They’re literally phrases. I was impressed somebody did their homework to think that that could be possibly done”, Manafort told The Associated Press.
“Guilty!” came an angry growl from fist-pumping, red-faced delegates that rose from the red-white-and-blue throng assembled on the convention floor.
The speech, which was met with resounding cheers, came hours after the Trump children got to announce, along with the NY delegation that their father was the 2016 nominee for the Republican party. She spoke of her husband’s “simple goodness” and his loyalty and love of family – while noting the “drama” that comes with Trump in politics.
NY put him over the top in the delegate count, with Trump’s son Donald Jr. delivering that state’s results. She has previously alluded to Clinton’s claim that the cause of the attack was in response to an anti-Muslim video, and repeated that sentiment at the RNC.
Playing off the crowd at one point, Christie replied, “Alright, alright, we’re getting there”.
The crowd gathered in the cavernous convention hall reflected the growing dissatisfaction among some Republicans with party elites.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky. But Trump instead chose Indiana Gov. Mike Pence to be his vice presidential candidate this weekend. NY put him over the top in the delegate count.
Chris Christie offered up a worrying glimpse on Tuesday of what a Trump presidency might look like.
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Wielding a rhetorical pitchfork, the New Jersey governor and 2016 presidential primary rival of nominee Donald Trump thundered that Clinton was guilty of monumental policy and character failures that he said disqualify her from the presidency. She called Assad a different kind of leader.
