Clinton campaign dismisses polls putting Trump in lead

The CNN polls in October indicated that Clinton had an 18 point lead over Donald Trump among early voters.

Trump’s need to win Florida, as well as flip states that Obama won in 2012, explains his Tuesday visits to Pennsylvania, where financially struggling laid-off factory workers might be receptive to his candidacy, and to Wisconsin, where rural dairy farmers and blue collar workers play an important role in the voting.

Hillary Clinton’s campaign renewed its calls on Tuesday for Donald Trump to release his tax returns, this on the heels of a report the GOP nominee used an accounting maneuver to avoid reporting hundreds of millions of dollars in income.

Even as the White House remains an uphill climb, Republicans see the email exchanges as a new opportunity to win over voters in the dozens of down-ballot races that will determine House and Senate control next year.

Other safe-haven assets were also favored, with the Swiss franc rising to 1.0782 franc per euro EURCHF=, its highest level since late June. This may be the case, after all “markets hate uncertainty”.

Trump and Pence both are campaigning in New Mexico this week.

Trump visited ME on Friday, marking his fifth visit during the campaign. Clinton’s support in Arizona has grown since the last poll, in which Trump was still leading by 7 points.

“When I think about what we now know about Donald Trump and what he’s been doing for 30 years, he sure has spent a lot of time demeaning, degrading, insulting and assaulting women”, Clinton said.

“If Hillary is elected, she would be under protracted criminal investigation, likely followed by the trial of a sitting president”, Trump said in MI. Democrats criticize Trump for taking what they say is a pro-Russia foreign policy stance.

Clinton was introduced by Alicia Machado, a former Miss Universe whom Trump, then the owner of the pageant, humiliated by mocking her post-victory weight gain and calling her “Miss Piggy”.

Joe Raedle/Getty Images News/Getty ImagesCLEVELAND, OH – JULY 20: Eric Trump (R) along with his wife, Lara Yunaska, attend the third day of the Republican National Convention on July 20, 2016 at the Quicken Loans Arena in Cleveland, Ohio.

The euro EUR= rose to a three-week high of $1.1069 in U.S. trade on Tuesday, up about two percent from its 7-1/2-month low of $1.0851 hit just over a week ago.

A Reuters equity market poll last month showed a majority of forecasters predicted that USA stocks would perform better under a Clinton presidency than a Trump administration. This week, he’s devoting his most valuable resource – his time – to states where polls suggest he’s trailing Clinton by significant margins.

Trump is also improving his position in some battleground states though still faces a steep uphill climb to amassing the 270 electoral votes needed to win the presidency. Democrats are also trying to shore up their support in more favorable states, with a super PAC backing Clinton announcing plans to spend at least $1 million on final-days ads in MI and Colorado.

Trump is closing in on the polls and Clinton is plagued by the email scandal after the Federal Bureau of Investigation announced it will further investigate the case after e-mails were discovered on the estranged husband of her top aide, Huma Abedin.

In North Carolina on Wednesday, Clinton deployed President Barack Obama to make the case that Trump posed a unique threat to the future of the country.

Donald Trump is making a surprise stop at a local outpost of a beloved Pennsylvania-based convenience store chain.

Three seconds of silence is what happens. Now the FBI has launched a new investigation.

In an ad titled “Corruption”, an announcer says: “Hillary cut deals for donors. After decades of lies and scandal, her corruption is closing in”.