“Clinton is getting the backing of more senior military service members and former officials with command and management experience than any non-incumbent Democrat”, the release noted.
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Of the 13 battleground states profiled here, Clinton leads Trump in 11, according to an average polls by election tracking website Real Clear Politics, though her advantage is marginal – a point or less – in four of those states.
And Clinton finding her national lead shrinking from 8 to 3 points in the face of her ever-unfolding email saga on the home stretch of the presidential race acknowledged it was a “mistake” to use a private email server and so was her vote for Iraq war as a USA senator.
Speaking to reporters Thursday morning, Clinton suggested she agreed with Democrats who say she is being held to a different standard in the White House race.
“The gentleman who stood up and said honestly, ‘You should be imprisoned for what you did.’ That was the tough one”, Trump said. But it’s certainly not in the bag.
DONALD TRUMP: I think under the leadership of Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, the generals have been reduced to rubble. “She could walk into this arena right now and shoot somebody with 20,000 people watching”, Trump said, creating a pistol gesture with his hand, “right smack in the middle of the heart and she wouldn’t be prosecuted, OK?”
At the same time, Daschle said, “all the things that Trump has done, the numbers should be far more explicitly in her favor, but they’re not”.
Trump did not directly respond to Clinton’s critique Thursday.
The campaign has long predicted a tightened race, and has taken to using recent polls both to imbue supporters with a sense of urgency – and to continue raising money.
Paul Manafort, Trump’s former campaign chief, also came under scrutiny for his past work in Ukraine for pro-Russian politicians. “His fundraising numbers are spiking – he and the Republicans raised $90 million in August (his best month yet)”.
American presidential candidates are not prone to condemn their country before a foreign audience, even if they are fierce critics of the current administration while campaigning in the United States. Aides attributed the change to Trump’s packed August schedule, including a visit to Mexico, as well as increased discipline.
Friday’s remark was reminiscent of Trump’s comment earlier this year when he said that he could shoot somebody in the middle of New York’s busy 5th Avenue and not lose any support.
That optimism is less prevalent outside the campaign, though many operatives are loath to predict an outcome in such a volatile election. As Trump was again dismissing the tax-return matter, The Post that afternoon published an extensive report by Dana Priest, Ellen Nakashima and Tom Hamburger laying out what US intelligence officials believe is “a broad covert Russian operation in the United States to sow public distrust in the upcoming presidential election and in USA political institutions”.
August saw a total amount raised by the Clinton campaign at $692.7m, a significantly large sum compared to Trump’s $346.3m. Asked to explain this comment, Trump said, “It is a correct tweet”.
Donald Trump claimed he did not “pay to play”.
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“I don’t see the path”.
