In RealClearPolitics, which keeps tracks of all major polls, Clinton’s lead in the average of polls is 1.6 percentage points. Trump used the platform to promote his economic and security proposals, and he made a direct pitch to African-Americans and Hispanics.
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“We don’t want to blow it on November 8”, Trump said during the Jacksonville event, his fourth in Florida in two days.
This is the scenario where everything breaks Hillary Clinton’s way on election night. More than half of Republicans now say they think Trump will win the election – up from a low point last week when Republicans were more likely to think Clinton would win.
Standing onstage with the stars at a free concert at Cleveland’s Wolstein Center on Friday night, Clinton lavished praise on the celebrity couple and asked the thousands of cheering fans for their votes. They are subject to change and will be updated daily through election day.
At a rally in Pittsburgh, Mrs Clinton cited the Government’s latest jobs report as evidence of the economy’s strength.
But those goals largely fell away a week ago, after the surprise Federal Bureau of Investigation announcement that investigators had found additional emails from Mrs. Clinton’s family server on the laptop of one of her aide’s estranged husband.
Clinton leads Trump by 2 points in North Carolina, 49 to 47 percent, in the closest of the races.
Trump was set to headline two events Friday in New Hampshire while running mate Mike Pence is scheduled to visit Michigan, North Carolina and Florida.
The Love Bus-an old school bus repainted in various colors by nine Miami-based immigrant artists-will make the rounds in south Florida all weekend offering to take voters to the polls early in Haitian and migrant worker communities, said Ruth Moreno, state coordinator for the immigrant rights group iAmerica Action.
Mr Trump kicked off a marathon day in Florida, a state he essentially must win to take the White House. “Just relax”, Obama said.
The speaker encouraged Republicans to “come home” to support Trump in Ryan’s home-state Wisconsin, ignoring for a day his icy relationship with the Republican nominee.
In Nevada, the early voters have definitely led some electoral college maps to lean blue.
Today also brought a fresh crop of press scandals, which may or may not affect the race.
The AP found that Melania Trump was paid for modeling jobs in the United States worth $20,056 that occurred in the seven weeks before she had legal permission to work in the country, according to detailed accounting ledgers, contracts and related documents from 20 years ago. He also has threatened to sue The New York Times over its publication of details regarding his taxes.
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Some electors are allowed to disregard their own political party’s candidate and vote for someone else, but that is extremely rare and has not had a meaningful impact on the election outcome in modern times. “America deserves a government that can go to work on Day One”. This is the area of Pennsylvania where Hillary Clinton reportedly dominates the polls. He’ll also campaign in Pennsylvania and MI.
Later on Saturday, she is is expected at a concert with pop star Katy Perry, before taking to the stage with basketball giant LeBron James in Cleveland on Sunday.
While Obama may be annoyed by the intrusion of Trump’s pop culture star power into the race, Clinton clings to A-listers like a lifeline – later Friday, she is to make a joint appearance in OH with rapper Jay Z and perhaps his wife Beyonce, after stops in Pennsylvania and MI.
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“If Donald Trump were to win this election we would have a commander in chief who is completely out of his depth and whose ideas are incredibly risky”, she told supporters during a rally at Pitt Community College in Greenville, North Carolina. In his two campaigns, President Barack Obama easily carried MI twice, by 16 points in 2008 and almost 10 points in 2012.
