Morell is now affiliated with Beacon Global Strategies, a consulting firm with ties to senior Democrats with national security expertise, including former defense secretary and Central Intelligence Agency director Leon Panetta and former top Clinton aide Philippe Reines.
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New polling released Thursday shows Democrat Hillary Clinton up 11 percentage points in Pennsylvania and 15 in New Hampshire.
Sixty-two percent of those who watched the Democratic convention, which ended a week ago, said they were more likely to vote for Clinton.
The release of the poll comes on the heels of a hard week for Trump, as several national and battleground state polls have shown him trailing Clinton after last week’s Democratic convention. But they also seemed to reflect the fallout from a series of controversies involving Trump that have sparked negative reactions from not only Democrats but also some prominent Republicans.
REP. PAUL RYAN (R-WI), Speaker of the House: I don’t like to do this, I don’t want to do this, but I will do this because I feel I have to in order to defend Republicans and our principles, so that people don’t make the mistake of thinking we think like that.
Toomey, who’s seeking his second six-year term, said Friday he’s “still watching and waiting and evaluating” when it comes to Trump.
Khizr and Ghazala Khan, the parents of an Army captain killed in Iraq, speak with VOA in Washington on August 1, 2016.
It’s been a hard week for Trump, who was widely condemned for making critical comments about the parents of a Muslim American soldier who died in Iraq.
Trump refused to endorse Ryan and Sen.
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While the Trump camp is rumored to be rethinking its strategy in light of their candidate’s opinion poll setback, campaign chief Paul Manafort gave off an air of confidence.
President Barack Obama’s favorability rating continues to gain as he steps up criticism of his would-be successor, Donald Trump.
Trump took time out of his day to respond to Morell’s endorsement (embedded below).
“Well, I think that is probably right”. And the newspaper reports that “a majority of Trump backers said they see their decision as a vote against Clinton” as opposed to a vote for Trump. In the McClatchy-Marist poll, Clinton’s lead shrunk by only 1 point, while she retained an identical 9-point lead in the NBC-WSJ survey.
Earlier last month, Gallup released a poll indicating that Trump and Clinton were now among the worst-rated presidential candidates of the last 70 years.
“In the intelligence business, we would say that Mr. Putin had recruited Mr. Trump as an unwitting agent of the Russian Federation”, Morell said, in an article in which he endorsed Trump’s rival in the November 8 election, Democrat Hillary Clinton.
Morell endorsed Clinton in a Friday Op-Ed in The New York Times, and cited Trump’s proposed policies toward Russian Federation as a major factor in his endorsement.
Eager to change their minds, Trump unleashed a slew of insults at Clinton during his Iowa rally.
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Donald Trump faced an all-too-clear sign of GOP divisions Friday in Midwestern battlegrounds, embraced by party leaders in one state but ignored in another.
