Pressed on if that would be before November’s election, Pence replied, “Well, we’ll see”. But the analysts have narrowed the odds a bit in recent days.
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Labor Day is the traditional kickoff of the fall campaign season, and the visits by Clinton and Trump underscore Ohio’s importance in the general election.
But Jim Jordan, former executive director of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, says those voters are equally likely to be “pretty disgusted” by the refusal of most Republican candidates to renounce Trump-or may simply stay home if the presidential race looks decided.
Both candidates have lobbed sharp verbal barbs at each other, hoping to win over undecided voters.
But more revelations about her private email server or the Clinton Foundation could reinforce the perception that she’s not trustworthy.
Clinton’s campaign announced that it had raised $US143 million ($A188 million) in August for her presidential bid and the Democratic Party.
Ryan’s fundraising appeal for Republicans, sent last month, opens with, “I worry about what will happen if Hillary Clinton is elected president”, adding, “The situation would be even worse if we fail to protect our House majority”.
PHOENIX (AP) – Donald Trump is retreating from his vow to deport everyone living in the United States illegally, even as he sticks with an aggressive tone on illegal immigration and remains committed to building a physical wall along the US border with Mexico. Anyone who has entered the United States illegally is subject to deportation-that is what it means to have laws and to have a country.
“So contrast the Hillary situation, where the Federal Bureau of Investigation said there’s no need for legal proceedings, with an attack that is being encouraged by Donald Trump on the DNC by Russian Federation similar to what led to resignation of a president 30 years ago”, he said.
The good feelings from his first meeting with a head of state as his party’s presidential nominee lasted only a short time, as a dispute arose in the hours after he left over the most contentious part of his plans to fight illegal immigration: his insistence that Mexico pay to build a physical wall along the roughly 2,000-mile border. But he left unclear how he plans to deal with millions of other immigrants who have not committed any crimes other than entering the USA illegally.
While Clinton battles accusations of secrecy and wrongdoing, the Trump campaign also has questions to answer on the issue of transparency.
That’s a big change from even the 1970s and 1980s, when conservative Democratic senators still dominated Southern states stampeding toward the GOP in presidential elections, just as moderate Republican senators thrived in coastal states trending toward the Democrats. The latest CBS News Battleground Tracker poll shows Clinton leading by eight points in Pennsylvania and four points in North Carolina.
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Giuliani’s admission that the topic was briefly broached is one of the first direct acknowledgements from the campaign that payment for the wall was indeed brought up during the meeting.
