Hillary Clinton: Foundation ‘looking for partners’

Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton portrays Donald Trump as a man “with a long history of racial discrimination” at a campaign event at Truckee Meadows Community College, in Reno, Nev., Thursday, Aug. 25, 2016.

“Looking back, I shouldn’t have used those words, and I wouldn’t use them today”, Clinton said in February.

She also insisted that there was no conflict of interest when she was secretary of state, nor was she “influenced” by the foundation. Some 39 percent of likely voters supported Clinton in the four-way poll, compared with 36 percent for Trump, 7 percent for Libertarian candidate Gary Johnson and 3 percent for Green Party nominee Jill Stein.

The Aug. 22-25 opinion poll found that 41 percent of likely voters supported Clinton ahead of the November 8 presidential election, while 36 percent supported Trump. But he said there were not enough grounds for a prosecution, a decision criticized by Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump and other Republicans.

Clinton released a web video on Thursday ahead of her Nevada speech tying Trump to white supremacist groups, including the Ku Klux Klan.

But neither that issue nor her emails appears to be going away soon.

Two-thirds of likely voters further said they don’t believe Clinton is honest, while six in 10 said they think she believes she doesn’t have to play by the same rules as everyone else -messages the Trump campaign has pushed in recent weeks as more of her State Department emails have been released.

Bannon told the magazine Mother Jones during the Republican National Convention last month that the website was “the platform for the alt-right”, a brand of US political conservatism associated with white nationalism and nativism. The department did not immediately respond.

The tone of the U.S. presidential campaign turned darker on Thursday, with Hillary Clinton skewering Donald Trump as a man who flirts with racism and paranoid ideas, while he in turn labeled her a racist whose family foundation was a “criminal enterprise”.

The foundation’s work, she continued, has been “in line with American interests and values”.

Donald Trump, Clinton’s Republican opponent, and his surrogates have repeatedly accused Clinton of providing top foundation donors with favors while she served as secretary of state.

At a time when Trump seems to be attempting to adopt a more inclusive tone, Clinton reminded her audience that Trump opened his campaign by suggesting that some undocumented immigrants from Mexico were rapists and criminals.

Hillary Clinton seemed to hint on Friday that the Clinton Foundation may be in the early stages of winding down.

“And if there were no evidence – and I mean people can say whatever they want, I understand that – but if there were no evidence that there was any conflict, I would say look, I appreciate the work that they did to help 11-and-a-half million people around the world get more affordable medicines; and I appreciate the work that was done to help more people make a living and get a job and to help American kids battle obesity and get better food”.

Lerer reported from Hartford, Connecticut. Find out via AP’s Election Buzz interactive.