One is “e-nailed”, as a wag put it, and the other ‘walled-in’.
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The Emerson poll showed that fifty-six percent of Virginia’s voters view Clinton unfavorably, while 60 percent view Trump in a negative light. Clinton has repeatedly said Trump lacks the temperament and knowledge to become president, while he points to what USA investigators say was her “extremely careless” handling of classified material on the unsecured, private email server she used while she was the country’s top diplomat during Obama’s first term from 2009 to 2013.
Clinton has been accused of mishandling classified information while working for the State Department but the report attributes her mismanagement of the emails to a concussion suffered in 2012.
Emerson also polled in Virginia and found Clinton with only a one-point lead over Trump, in a sample of 800 likely voters.
In the midst of it all, Abedin’s disgraced husband Anthony Weiner was caught in a sexting scandal – sending raunchy photos and messages including one with his toddler son, to a woman supporter of Trump – for the third time in five years.
Trump mainly because opposed Clinton.
But even as she railed against the influence of big money in politics, an unconcerned Clinton raised $143 million in August for Democrats and her campaign with $50,000 a plate fundraisers in celebrity homes.
“Once you enforce the law, once you get rid of the criminals, once you triple the number of ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) agents, once you secure the Southern border, once you turn off the jobs. and benefits magnet, then we’ll see where we are”, she said Sunday morning on ABC’s “This Week”.
In a fiery speech in Phoenix, Trump reiterated plans to secure the border and to deport those in the country illegally – but his focus on illegal immigrants who were charged with crimes left some wondering if that meant amnesty for those who didn’t commit additional crimes. We don’t know where they live, who they are.
Those priorities suggest a dramatic escalation of deportations from current levels: an estimated 690,000 people who have committed crimes, plus an estimated 4.5 million individuals who have overstayed their visas.
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But pro-Trump Breitbart News sees reason for optimism, saying the results “seem to fit a larger trend over the past two weeks of improving chances for Donald Trump to defeat Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton”. The first of three scheduled presidential debates is set for September 26, with the other two in October. But a Trump clone is hard to fund for mock debates. In other words, she has multiple paths, Trump doesn’t. He simply meets with his advisers for Sunday chats at his New Jersey golf course testing zingers over cheeseburgers, hot dogs and sodas.
