A horse race that lasted for more than a year would be awful-and so is this election.
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But the polls show how close the race is looking ahead of the November 8 vote, making the battle for the so-called swing states all the more important. But which polls accurately track the truth is tricky. There are smart people everywhere in politics, and the political media offers a Trump Tower’s worth of opinions every day. “I know that that’s what has been alleged and never proven”.
As a result, this whole election cycle has orbited nearly entirely around his magnetic but grating persona.
Speaking of Trump, political commentator Nicolle Wallace said on Morning Joe: “If he looks anything less than deranged, he far exceeds expectations”. All of this, he says, makes national security issues real and personal to him.
Julian Zelizer, professor of history and public affairs at Princeton University, told Xinhua that Trump needs to secure his position with core Republican voters and he also needs to gain considerable ground in most of the battle ground states by convincing voters that he is capable of governing. With Libertarian Gary Johnson and Green Party candidate Jill Stein included, Clinton’s support level dips below 50%, but she still maintains a 19-point advantage over Trump. But Fiorina made it clear at the next primary debate that she wasn’t buying it. Then Obama won 332 electoral votes.
Clinton, in the national eye for three decades, shrugged off the intense nature of the Republican attacks against her, including a call for a fresh congressional investigation of the Clinton Foundation following reports that donors gained inappropriate access to her while she was secretary of state.
“When Putin was asked about it, he could barely muster the energy to deny it, if any of you saw it”, Clinton said, adding that the Russian president, whom she clashed with as secretary of state, “and the team around him certainly believe that there is some benefit to them to doing this”. If she wins, she’ll be in the tricky spot of governing a country that doesn’t appear to like her all that much.
Trump, who has tried to establish himself as the law-and-order candidate who will keep American safe, has announced that he would focus in coming days on national security. This is a shift from the PPP poll, which showed Clinton with 80 percent of the black vote and Trump with 5 percent.
The controversial candidate has in the past compared Mexicans to criminals and rapists, a remark that could end up costing him the election.
Clinton, a former U.S. senator from NY and secretary of state, also said that daughter Chelsea Clinton’s involvement in the Clinton Foundation charity will be decided after the November 8 election. She began September with more than $68 million in her campaign’s bank account to use against Trump, who has not yet released initial fundraising totals for August.
So if you’ve tuned out, I don’t blame you.
“I’m not taking anybody, anywhere for granted”, Clinton told a crowd of more than 1,000 at a picnic in Cleveland. News stories displayed here appear in our category for and are licensed via a specific agreement between LongIsland.com and The Associated Press, the world’s oldest and largest news organization.
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The security back-and-forth comes as the campaign enters its final two months and reminders of terror poised to return to the surface in advance of the 15th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks on Sunday.
