Obama Avoids FBI Mention in Ohio Campaign Stop for Clinton

Most polls also showed a spike in support for Mr Trump in late July, though ABC was not among those who had the Republican taking an outright lead.

Yet few Republican or Democratic operatives view the email news as a game-changer in the race for Senate control. Instead, she focused on Mr. Trump and made a targeted appeal to women voters who, Mrs. Clinton argues, should be repulsed by what the Republican presidential nominee has said and done.

U.S. stocks closed down 0.7 per cent and the Vix Volatility or “fear index” jumped to its highest level since Britain voted to leave the European Union.

Mr Trump, however, urged people who voted early for his Democratic rival to cancel their ballots and switch to him.

Representative Mike Honda of California said in a separate statement Tuesday that Comey needs to provide more detail on the inquiry. “That I can tell you”.

Many political analysts believe Trump is trailing in a number of those key battleground states, giving Clinton an apparently strong edge in likely electoral college vote counts.

But this remains a long shot.

However other polls have Mrs Clinton in the lead. As reported by The New Yorker, Mr Holder wrote that officials “must be particularly sensitive to safeguarding the department’s reputation for fairness, neutrality, and non-partisanship”.

The issue that Clinton used a private email account, not the secure State Department one provided for her when she was secretary of state, first came up during Gowdy’s congressional investigation into the events surrounding the Benghazi attack on September 11, 2012.

The documents the bureau released the week before the election were part of an investigation it closed in 2005 concerning Mr. Clinton’s presidential pardon of fugitive financier Marc Rich.

There’s a pattern here: Trump, who thinks of himself as a Seigneur surrounded by admiring and grateful servitors who call him “Mr. Trump” (at least until the moment when he tells them “You’re fired!”), suddenly finds the social order reversed.

“Can we just stop for a minute and reflect on the absurdity of Donald Trump finding fault with Miss Universe?” Mrs Clinton demanded, warning against electing a president “who insults more than half the population”. “He was cruel He thinks he can do whatever he wants and get away with it”.

Each state has a certain number of votes in the electoral college. That’s probably too big a gap for Mr. Trump to close.

The FBI, it said, had uncovered emails that appeared “to be pertinent” to its earlier investigation of Hillary Clinton for having used a private email server for official communication during her years as secretary of state (2008-2013), though the Bureau could “not yet assess” whether the material was “significant”. That runs counter to the narrative that polls are closing in and is very different from other forecast models ― most notably the 71 percent probability she has in FiveThirtyEight’s model.

“We of course stand by her”, Clinton campaign Chairman John Podesta told the New York Times on Saturday, when asked whether Abedin would step down.

“The Trump campaign is on the offensive and we’re expanding our map, ” Trump aide David Bossie said, suggesting the campaign now sees opportunities to compete in traditional Democratic states such as New Mexico and MI.

His campaign sees the latter in particular as an opportunity to reinforce questions about Clinton’s trustworthiness and remind voters that sending Clinton to the White House could lead to the return of the scandals that trailed Bill Clinton’s presidency in the 1990s. However, Comey concluded that it was better to inform Congress sooner rather than wait until after the election.