Reuters/Ipsos: Clinton’s lead over Trump narrows to nine points

A large chunk of Trump’s case against Clinton rested on items pulled from Clinton Cash, a book by conservative academic and Breitbart News Senior Editor-at-Large Peter Schweizer.

For all of the sharp attacks on Clinton, the speech was maybe Trump’s most measured public appearance of the campaign. “He is temperamentally unfit to hold an office that requires knowledge, stability, and enormous responsibility”, Clinton said this week.

Trump has focused much of his energy in recent days on the mass shooting in Orlando, Florida by a U.S.-born gunman pledging allegiance to Islamic State militant group.

He said the stakes could not be higher, painting himself as an innovative thinker who would protect working Americans from a system rigged against them by career politicians, such as Clinton. While Clinton has called for a pathway to citizenship for millions of people living in the US illegally, she has also called for focusing enforcement on “detaining and deporting those individuals who pose a violent threat to public safety”. Her campaign also unveiled an entire new website: www.ArtoftheSteal.biz that’s teeming with articles, data and videos bashing Trump’s record as a businessman. “The Sultan of Brunei has pushed oppressive Sharia law, including the punishment of death by stoning for being gay”. John Thune, a Republican from South Dakota, said Tuesday. Cleve Jones, famous for organizing the national AIDS quilt and other actions, wrote an op-ed in 2015 for The Advocate in which he suggested “TPP will do nothing to promote LGBT equality in signatory countries”.

“We will lose jobs, we will lose employment, we will lose taxes”, Trump said.

Clinton added a pointed defence of the Clinton Foundation in a speech later on Wednesday.

In April 2015, the Clinton Foundation agreed to limit foreign donations while Hillary Clinton runs for president. “Hillary took millions from Kuwait, Qatar, Oman and many other countries that horribly abuse women and LGBT citizens”.

Throughout the 2016 race, Trump has stuck to the claim that he “was among the earliest to criticize the rush to war” in Iraq during the George W. Bush administration.

Speaking at a Manhattan hotel, the billionaire real estate magnate argued that the former secretary of state has “perfected the politics of personal profit and even theft”.

“He was saying in the context that liberals and the Democrats don’t get those kinds of questions, they don’t get their faith examined in that way”, he said. “We can’t hand over our government to someone whose deepest, darkest secrets may be in the hands of our enemies”.

In response to Mr. Trump’s remarks, the Clinton campaign released a statement by evangelical leader Deborah Fikes, who has served as an executive advisor to the World Evangelical Association. When you get right down to it. She will do horribly on the economy. He slammed her for ignoring “radical Islam” and allowing American diplomats to be killed in Benghazi in 2012. “They are the ones she will hurt the most”.

Trump is making some moves this week aimed at steadying his campaign. “Very, very unfair, and very very bad for our country”, Trump said of Clinton. I am very committed to what I believe is the discipline and the mandates that you should be responding to as a Christian and for me that has a lot to do with, you know, lifting up those who are the last, the lost and the least among us and trying to give more people a chance to chart a more positive for themselves. “I’m with you: the American people”.