Clinton extends lead over Trump

Clinton more than made up her lost ground with voters amid the post-Katy Perry bliss, surging by a net of 5.5 points and leading Trump 46.4 percent to 42 percent.

Conservatives like me, for example, see no moral daylight between the contemptible corruption, rank dishonesty and serial unaccountability of Clinton and the bigotry, megalomania and hypocrisy of Trump. “I think we have widespread voter fraud, but the first thing that Trump needs to do is begin talking about it constantly”, Stone told a friendly interviewer, adding that Trump should start saying this: “If there’s voter fraud, this election will be illegitimate, the election of the victor will be illegitimate, we will have a constitutional crisis, widespread civil disobedience, and the government will no longer be the government”.

“I’m afraid the election is going to be rigged, I have to be honest”, EFE news quoted Trump as saying during a campaign rally in Columbus, Ohio. “A man you can bait with a tweet is not a man we can trust with nuclear weapons”.

Hanna said that Trump is “unfit to serve our party and can not lead this country”.

(Photo: REUTERS/Gary Cameron)Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton waves with her vice presidential running mate Senator Tim Kaine after accepting the nomination on the fourth and final night at the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S. July 28, 2016.

Trump’s statement comes amid intense fallout over his criticism of the family of the late Capt. Humayun Khan, a U.S. Army soldier who died in Iraq in 2004. “Where do we draw the line?” Her lawyerly parsing of words is what drives people nuts, yet she seems incapable of fashioning, rehearsing and repeating a straight forward answer like, “As I said, I thought all the emails I was viewing did not, repeat, did not, contain highly classified information”. But Clinton’s uptick here could prove critical, especially if she can sustain it amid the recent dip for Trump. “Little more than a changing mirror of those he speaks to”. Her net favorability scores also improved in the days after the convention. A particularly lengthy and impassioned rebuke came from McCain, chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee. In his acceptance speech at the Republican National Convention he decried “war and destruction”.

This week also saw Sally Bradshaw, a longtime adviser to Jeb Bush and an architect of the GOP’s attempt four years ago to court younger, more diverse voters, flee the Republican party.

There’s a lot of bad news for Donald Trump in a new poll out from Fox News, the most obvious of which is that Hillary Clinton is beating him by 10.

In what is nearly certainly a triumph of wishful thinking over reality, ABC News reports that “senior party officials are so frustrated – and confused – by Donald Trump’s erratic behavior that they are exploring how to replace him on the ballot if he drops out”. “We’re exhausted of lies”, a Trump supporter identified only as Krishna told Xinhua outside the campaign event.

Yet they show that Trump’s delicate alliance with party leaders, rather than improving as the campaign wears on, is continuing to fray.

Clinton’s play-it-safe strategy so far and Trump’s almost-complete lack of specifics have left some of the faithful in both parties jittery about how their respective nominees would handle tough education issues in the White House.

Trump’s stunning slap at two of the nation’s most prominent Republicans dramatically escalated GOP turmoil barely a week after a convention meant to promote party unity.