The first presidential debate is September 26th.
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Clinton’s campaign is spending big to undercut Trump’s message in a new TV ad also released Tuesday entitled, “Sacrifice”. These have little to do with the contest for president. He laughs, Putin looks at Hillary Clinton and he smiles.
Trump went on to say he’d “love to give specifics”.
Trump and Clinton start the race to November 8, with the NY billionaire topping Clinton 45 to 43 per cent in the new survey, with Libertarian Gary Johnson standing at seven per cent among likely voters in this poll and the Green Party’s Jill Stein at just two per cent, CNN reported.
The ad is airing on cable and in Ohio, Florida, Iowa, Nevada and Pennsylvania.
These are the places where the campaigns are spending their time and money.
Although the former first lady holds a large lead in the Northeast and Western states, Trump poses tough competition in the Midwest – where they are tied at 45 percent of the vote – and South – where Trump holds a slight edge, according to survey results.
Hillary Clinton took a wide-ranging series of questions from her traveling press corps Monday for the first time in over a month, primarily responding to a report in The Washington Post that USA intelligence agencies are investigating potential Russian interference in the US election. The Washington Post projection has Clinton with 244 electoral votes compared to Trump’s 126.
She continued, “I think it’s quite intriguing that this activity has happened around the time [Donald] Trump became the nominee”.
A candidate needs 270 electoral votes to win.
Americans entered the summer staring down at the two most unpopular presidential nominees in USA history.
A pro-Johnson super PAC aired over $550,000 in television advertisements last month, but is now not on the air.
Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton waves as she arrives to speak at the 49th Annual Salute to Labor at Illiniwek Park Riverfront in Hampton, Ill., Monday, Sept. 5, 2016.
While polls have fluctuated during the summer, these surveys have basically returned to where they started before the conventions.
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And she implied Moscow was trying to help get the 70-year-old Trump elected. He would only say that she should not be involved if made president. She pointed to her endorsements from retired Marine Gen. John Allen, who blasted Trump at the Democratic National Committee, and former Central Intelligence Agency deputy director Mike Morell.
