A new New Hampshire poll will have Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton anxious about her swing state leads. Heading into the final days, both campaigns are presenting the choice as a crossroads for democracy.
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The former secretary of state’s stop into Detroit four days before Election Day underscored how the presidential race in MI has intensified in the final week of a grueling campaign.
Law enforcement sources said on Thursday FBI Director James Comey was compelled in part by a fear of leaks from within his agency when he made a decision to inform Congress the FBI was investigating newly found emails related to Hillary Clinton, .
Donald Trump is continuing to hit on the cloud of controversy that hangs over Democratic rival Hillary Clinton.
The GOP nominee still faces a treacherous path to the White House.
Nevada and Florida are swing states and do have big Hispanic populations, but other demographic elements in those states favor Trump, so the demographic switcheroo is a wash there.
Recently, Clinton’s confidence in her lead had allowed her to spend time focusing on helping elect more Democrats to the Senate. Combined, those three states account for 46 electoral votes.
Trump also said he would suspend the Syrian refugee program, “and we will keep radical Islamic terrorists the hell out of our country”.
Trump backers are almost uniformly confident about their candidate’s prospects, despite the controversies that have surrounded his campaign all year and opinion polls that show him trailing Clinton in potentially decisive states. Comey has said the emails appear to be pertinent, but may or may not be significant, to its initial investigation of Clinton’s private server.
Clinton and the main super PAC helping her are spending at least $8 million in Pennsylvania, while Trump and super PACs aiding him have about $2.5 million on the air.
Giuliani said the FBI’s request for Clinton’s medical records should have been granted because she claimed a concussion had affected her memory of her interview with the Central Intelligence Agency.
Voter turnout in Detroit, especially among African-Americans, is pivotal to Democrats in the state. Pennsylvania is a state where Clinton has long had a solid lead; it has not voted for a Republican in six presidential elections.
The LA Times/USC Tracking survey, which has bucked the trend of other polls in consistently showing a lead for Trump, has the businessman at 47 points to Clinton’s 43.
The Democrat was due to campaign in Pennsylvania and MI on Friday, states long considered Democratic strongholds. Compared with Obama, she’s weaker in key battleground states that he won, and stronger in red states that he lost.
Campaigning for Clinton on the campus of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill on Wednesday, Obama told the crowd, “The fate of the republic rests on your shoulders”.
Abedin, 40, has worked closely with the Democratic nominee for years, first serving under the then-first lady’s Chief of Staff Maggie Williams as a White House intern in 1996.
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“Donald Trump is unsafe, he’s not qualified, he’s thin-skinned and I’m scared of the idea of having him in the White House”, said Tom Moran, who carried a sign with a life-size caricature of Donald Trump. But with polls tightening across battleground states, Democrats are taking little for granted. “A lot of people say they want change”. “When he first declared he was going to run, I thought it was a joke”.
