Trump sticks to attacks, insults, hoping to overtake Clinton

On Tuesday of this past week, both Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump were in the battleground state of Florida, where the Republican nominee held two rallies, touching as many as 20,000 people.

But on that latter point, Comey in fact said the new trove was “pertinent” to the Clinton email investigation, without explaining how. Clinton has risen in polls when the focus has been on Trump, while Trump has done better. McConnell says she keeps the doll by her television.

Justice officials concluded the letter would be inconsistent with department policy that directs against investigative actions that could be seen as affecting an election or helping a particular candidate, the official said.

Hillary Clinton enters the homestretch of the presidential race with a sizable fundraising lead over Republican rival Donald Trump. Those emails were not from her server, according to a USA official who was not authorized to discuss details publicly and spoke on condition of anonymity. Even if she wins, Republicans have vowed the issue will follow her, promising continuing investigations.

After a couple of stops in New England, Trump will finish off the Iowa presidential blitz with a 7 p.m. rally in Cedar Rapids at McGrath Amphitheatre.

“I need to open with a very critical, breaking news announcement”, he told the crowd of hundreds in the Radisson Hotel’s Armory Ballroom.

Little is publicly known yet about the emails being investigated, other than that they were found during an unrelated probe into the estranged husband of a top Clinton aide.

It is not yet known if those emails are connected to Clinton. “We are going to try everything we can to get them unaddicted”. Until Friday, her campaign seemed to have weathered the initial Federal Bureau of Investigation email probe.

Trump now leads in the Real Clear state polling average by 2.5 percentage points, earning 46.8 percent compared to Clinton’s 44.3 percent.

Just over half of voters say the allegations make them less likely to vote for Trump – similar to the percentage saying the same of Clinton and her emails.

Feeling confident, she’s begun focusing on helping Democrats win control of the Senate, expand their margin in the House and lay the groundwork for future victories in demographically-shifting states like Arizona.

Clinton has an edge in some red states like Texas, Arizona and Georgia and battlegrounds like OH, the pollsters found. The state hasn’t gone for a Republican since 1988, but may prove essential for Trump’s electoral map.

A woman passes by a giant pumpkin created by master carver Hugh McMahon with the faces of 2016 Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton and Republican nominee Donald Trump, at Chelsea Market in New York, October 28. And Trump himself has contributed just over half the $100 million he pledged to help bankroll his own campaign.

Clinton’s campaign and joint accounts with Democrats had $153 million in the bank as of last week.

More than 80% of registered Republicans are likely voters in the Washington Post/ABC poll, up from 75% a week ago.

There are signs that Clinton’s team is at least partly turning to postelection thinking.

Mrs Clinton, however, is still reported to be ahead in key marginals of Florida and North Carolina.

At the first of Donald Trump’s three campaign rallies in OH on Thursday, his campaign told the local newspaper that 8,000 people showed up to see him at an equestrian center in Springfield.

The FBI revelation Friday raises additional questions about Clinton and the tight presidential race with only a week and a half to go before the election.