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UPI/CVoter poll: Hillary Clinton reclaims slight lead over Donald Trump

Hillary Clinton cast herself as the only presidential candidate who has fought terrorism and slammed Donald Trump’s response to the incidents in New York, New Jersey and Minnesota over the weekend as “demagogic”.

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“Now this confirms what we’ve said all along and that is that the trend-lines, the polling average, have been very clear throughout the campaign”.

Majorities said that both Trump and Clinton were worse than typical Republican and Democrat candidates for president, though more were likely to describe Clinton than Trump as “about the same as usual”.

Both candidates moved swiftly to capitalize on investigations into a weekend of violent attacks – bombings in NY and New Jersey and stabbings at a Minnesota mall – casting themselves as most qualified to combat terrorism at home and overseas. ISIS is an acronym used for Islamic State. He called it “a Trojan horse” for terrorists.

Back on the campaign trail after being diagnosed with pneumonia and a subsequent break from campaigning, Hillary Clinton plugged her leaking lead against Donald Trump, according to this week’s NBC News|SurveyMonkey Weekly Election Tracking Poll.

The Republican nominee said Tuesday that his Democratic rival will call for “strong borders” and “extreme vetting”, the term he uses for screening prospective immigrants. According to the poll, 56 percent of respondents said they had an unfavorable opinion of Trump, compared to 49 percent who had an unfavorable opinion of Clinton.

Trump agreed terrorists have a preference: They “want her so badly to be our president”.

Fallon has mostly seemed annoyed by the criticism he’s taken for his unforgivably (if entirely in keeping with his vanilla brand) light interview with Donald Trump. But she acknowledges she has work to do, telling young voters in Philadelphia on Monday she understands they “may still have some questions” about her. The group helped anchor Obama’s support, but Clinton has failed to attract them in the same numbers.

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Clinton (51 percent) leads Trump (30 percent) in a four-way race in NY with Libertarian Gary Johnson (8 percent) and Green Party candidate Jill Stein (3 percent), according to the Siena poll of likely voters. Trump met with Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi. The Trump Campaign alleged that Clinton Foundation is first and foremost an arm of the Clintons’ political and buck-raking apparatus.

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