She added: “I want you to know I will get up every single day in the White House doing everything I possibly can to protect our country”.
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Trump was playing off Clinton’s maiden name of Rodham. “Hillary Rotten Clinton, right?”
Pence sought to fire up the crowd in this battleground state before Trump’s remarks, drawing particularly loud applause when he said that, “Donald Trump knows that the war on coal must be brought to an end”. In some ways, the trajectory of the Clinton-Trump race so far has resembled a “vintage” presidential race, with wilder swings in the polls, as opposed to the 2004, 2008 and 2012 elections, when the polls were generally quite steady.
Castro floated as possible DNC chair: Housing secretary Julian Castro, who was on the short list to be Clinton’s running mate, is already being floated as a possible replacement for Wasserman Schultz after she resigned Sunday, reports Daily Mail. Tim Kaine, whom Trump derided as a “weird little dude” and a political “hack”.
Many of Sanders’ supporters remain deeply committed to their candidate, holding demonstrations in Philadelphia and booing mentions of Clinton on the convention floor.
There are similarities between the Trump and Clinton merch though: The Clinton campaign, like Trump’s, is using some of American Apparel’s blank products for merchandise. That’s probably too close for Team Clinton to conlude the state is in the bag, but it’s also possible their internal polling paints a more favorable picture. The head of the party, Debbie Wasserman Schultz, announced her resignation after the publication of emails that indicated party leaders had preferred Clinton over rival Bernie Sanders during the primaries. The now-cast also suggests that Trump has gained a net of about 4 percentage points on Clinton in national polls from a week ago, turning a deficit of about 3 points into a 1-point lead.
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After Democratic Party officials learned their systems were attacked in late April, they sought the help of the cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike Inc., which then discovered traces of at least two sophisticated hacking groups on the Democrats’ network – both of which have ties to the Russian government.
