Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has pulled into an effective tie with Democratic rival Hillary Clinton, erasing a substantial deficit as he consolidated support among his party’s likely voters in recent weeks, according to the latest Reuters/Ipsos national tracking poll.
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Clinton and Kaine planned to take part in a Labor Day festival with union leaders and workers in Cleveland before traveling to IL.
Democrats and even some Republicans have painted Mr Trump as unfit to serve as U.S. commander-in-chief but he has made up some ground on rival Hillary Clinton.
“I think that when you serve in the armed forces, that’s a very special situation”, Trump said. More recently, the real-estate mogul labeled her a “bigot”.
The ad pulls footage of Trump during interviews where he’s critical of John McCain and during foreign policy discussions where he claims to know more about the war on terrorism than military Generals.
Trump and Clinton are now tied in the Midwest – which includes crucial battleground states like OH and Iowa – and Trump has a 1-point lead in the South. The margin of error is 3 percentage points.
So far, Clinton has outspent the billionaire by nine to one on advertising.
Clinton was arriving in OH and IL aboard a new blue-and-white Boeing 737 campaign plane emblazoned with her slogan, “Stronger Together”. Clinton is leading in North Carolina, and in Pennsylvania by five points.
Clinton arrived in OH aboard a new blue-and-white Boeing 737 campaign plane emblazoned with her slogan, “Stronger Together”.
For that reason, he said, Clinton is the best choice. National security will be the focus of the first major television event of the general election campaign on Wednesday, when NBC hosts a “commander-in-chief forum” where the two candidates will answer questions from members of the military.
And while that’s good news for her Republican opponent, it might not be good enough.
“Hillary Clinton has spent years in the trenches doing the hard work needed to prepare herself to lead our nation”, it continued. She began September with more than $68 million in her campaign’s bank account to use against Trump, who has not yet released initial fundraising totals for August.
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Kellyanne Conway, Trump’s campaign manager, seized on the episode to tweak Clinton over her distance from the media – including not holding a full-blown press conference since last December.
