Clinton defends foundation, says it has been transparent

Republican Donald Trump, after weeks of self-inflicted damage, has seen support for his candidacy in national polls dip into the 30s – Barry Goldwater and Walter Mondale territory – while Democrat Hillary Clinton has extended her lead to double digits in several crucial swing states.

The Democratic presidential nominee called out Mr Trump for questioning the citizenship of President Barack Obama and for failing to disavow former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke, adding that he was “peddling bigotry and prejudice and paranoia”.

The criticism, which comes from civil rights leaders as well as Mrs. Clinton, has dogged Mr. Trump nearly from the start of his campaign, but the barbs sharpened last week after the Republican presidential candidate tapped Breitbart News chief Stephen K. Bannon to be campaign CEO. Last week he announced that if Hillary Clinton were elected president, the foundation would no longer accept foreign or corporate donations and that he would resign from its board.

The so-called alt-right movement casts itself as an alternative to mainstream conservatism that is proudly and vocally opposed to immigration and racial diversity. Trump’s campaign and RNC raised $80 million in July, a haul that closed the gap with Clinton, who pulled in $90 million.

The feverish fundraising comes as Trump, who had for months shirked traditional campaign finance tactics, has begun to post sizable monthly hauls and hit the fundraising circuit.

In the aftermath of hacked Democratic emails, Trump encouraged hackers from Russian Federation to find Clinton’s missing State Department emails, an apparent invitation for a foreign power to intervene in a US election.

This is a problem that isn’t going away – and shouldn’t – because it focuses directly on an issue Clinton has not been able to wiggle away from: Her lack of trustworthiness. “He treated us as if we were nothing”, Farage said. They say she stated falsehoods under oath, while testifying before Congress last fall about her use of emails.

In a recent Washington Post/ABC News poll, almost three in five voters found Clinton untrustworthy, a number which would typically bury a candidate in a normal election year.

The Trump campaign released a statement from supporter Mark Burns, an Evangelical pastor who is black, calling the video “a disgusting new low”. After Obama shocked Clinton in Iowa in 2008, she tried to undercut his appeal by talking down the civil rights icon in favor of Lyndon Johnson, the white politician who, she said, deserved the real credit. “No, I would not call it mass deportations”, Trump insisted when asked if that was still part of the plan in June.

Parker Dykes, 72, of Bay Springs, Miss., said Trump was striking an inclusive tone. “I made policy decisions based on what I thought was right, to keep Americans safe and to protect US interests overseas”. It describes itself as “an independent organization dedicated to the heritage, identity, and future of people of European descent in the United States, and around the world”. “They say, ‘Why can’t I be racist?'”

Spencer said in a blog posting on Thursday that the Republican Party is “the White Man’s party, whether it likes it or not”.

“Hillary Clinton doesn’t have a conflict of interest on charitable work – that’s all it is”, Clinton campaign manager Robby Mook said in an interview Wednesday with MSNBC’s “Morning Joe”. She is unwittingly drawing a distinction between “a national-populist view point and a globalist-elitist view point”.

Clinton headlined a series of star-studded events in Southern and Northern California this week, hobnobbing with celebrities, Hall of Fame athletes and tech billionaires, all while filling her campaign’s coffers with needed cash for the final months of her race against Donald Trump.

A majority of Americans have an unfavorable opinion of both Trump and Clinton, and almost one out of four likely voters says they do not support either of them for president, according to a separate Reuters/Ipsos poll. Trump, who campaigned throughout the Republican primaries on a restrictive immigration platform, told Hannity “there certainly can be a softening” on immigration policy to accommodate people in the country illegally who have been contributing to society.