With Labor Day behind them, Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton are battling over national security in the South’s top presidential battlegrounds.
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Despite growing worries among GOP leaders, the poll shows Trump still winning almost 9 in 10 likely Republican voters. “At this point, I doubt there are many people who are undecided about Trump”, said Cristol. Tell us what you thought! “And you know, friends don’t let friends vote for Trump”. Flake told CNN that Clinton could actually beat Trump in the normally Republican state of Arizona because Trump’s comments about migrants have alienated the state’s growing Hispanic population.
The topsy-turvy campaign for the presidency has seen both Clinton and Trump holding a significant lead at some point in the last two months, though Clinton has topped Trump more often than not.
The former senator, who ran against Trump before dropping out after a poor finish in the Iowa caucuses, said Trump shifted from calling for mass deportations to a position of uncertainty for undocumented immigrants. Max Cleland, a triple-amputee who served in Vietnam, also keys on Trump’s assertion that he has sacrificed a lot compared to families who have lost loved ones in conflict.
U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton answers questions from reporters on her campaign plane en route to a campaign stop in Moline, Illinois.
Clinton powered through a coughing fit at a Labor Day festival at a Cleveland park, sharply criticizing Trump’s recent trip to Mexico as “an embarrassing worldwide incident”. Pena Nieto later tweeted that it was addressed and he “made it clear” to Trump that Mexico would not pay. Whites who do not hold college degrees support Trump by an nearly 3-to-1 margin (68 percent to 24 percent) while whites who do have college degrees split 49 percent for Clinton to 36 percent for Trump and 11 percent for Johnson.
“Trump is hoping that he can do something similar to the UK’s Brexit vote, where mobilising a populist fear of immigrants can build a cross-class alliance of white people at a time of deep economic insecurity”, New York University scholar Arun Kundnani told Al Jazeera. He’s doing poorly among college-educated women, who are typically a Republican stronghold, and his rudimentary organization is dwarfed by Clinton’s political machine in swing states where he still lags in most polls.
On Tuesday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “Morning Joe”, MSNBC’s “The Last Word” host Lawrence O’Donnell stated of the FBI’s report on its investigation of Democratic presidential nominee former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s emails, “Cheryl Mills is one of the principals, investigators would call her a suspect at that point”.
She’ll also urge people not to miss the state’s October 17 deadline to register to vote.
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Clinton, the Democrat, is campaigning in Florida in search of an advantage in the nation’s largest swing state. Winning just one more big state, like Florida, would put her over 270 and send Trump packing.
