Out West, Clinton paints grim picture of life under Trump

“I am not on the ballot, but I tell you what”. While Hillary Clinton had two appearances Wednesday in Republican-leaning Arizona, she planned to spend part of Friday in Detroit as well.

Clinton’s new reservations follow Trump’s pledge to spend $25 million on advertising this week, although he is about $5 million short of that target.

Clinton will be in New Hampshire on Sunday, and President Barack Obama will attend a rally for Clinton at the University of New Hampshire in Durham on Monday.

Clinton’s campaign says it’s buoyed by early voting turnout among Arizona Democrats, as well as Clinton’s support among Hispanics turned off by Trump’s hardline immigration policies.

“It gets realer the closer you get”, Psaki said.

“If you accept the support of Klan sympathizers”, Obama said, “then you’ll tolerate that support when you’re in office”. So are things looking better for Clinton with the Comey news no longer dominating headlines? Yes.

In Pittsburgh, a city where one in three people is not white, Clinton hammered Trump as “someone who demeans women, mocks people with disabilities, insults African-Americans and Latinos and demonizes immigrants and Muslims”.

Obama is urging Clinton supporters at a get-out-the-vote rally in Miami to take advantage of the opportunity they have to vote early, before Election Day on Tuesday. And if that unusual web of interconnected NY politicians wasn’t confusing enough – just wait. “It was not clear to me which Donald Trump or how many Donald Trumps would show up during the course of each debate”. Fast forward to last Friday when F.B.I. director James B. Comey ignored Justice Department warnings and sent a letter to Congress about a new inquiry into Hillary Clinton’s emails discovered on a computer she had no control over and emails that did not originate with her.

Obviously, Hillary Clinton still has a very good chance of winning this election, and these tightening poll numbers might just be the result of hardening partisanship seven days before the conclusion of the nastiest presidential election in recent history. As the conservative WSJ editorial said, Comey “has lost all the trust of his political masters, his congressional overseers and the people”. He must win Florida to win the White House, no easy feat.

Clinton’s campaign, most Democrats and even some Republicans excoriated Comey for reinjecting the emails into the forefront of the presidential race.

The Podesta emails have shed light on some of the inner workings of the Clinton campaign. “Campaigning in [Florida] just six days before Election Day, Donald Trump acknowledged that the key to victory might be his ability to stay on message, stick to the teleprompter and ignore the siren call of the tangents that have spurred headlines throughout the campaign and often sabotaged even his most potent lines of attack on his opponent”, NBC’s Ali Vitali writes. “We don’t want to blow this”, he said.

It explains why on Wednesday she made an unscheduled visit to a shopping centre in Lauderhill, near Fort Lauderdale, in Florida, an area with a large Caribbean population. Many of her events are near early voting sites.

Eric Trump spoke to The Associated Press on Thursday before a series of campaign stops for his father in western Wisconsin, including a couple where he will join with Johnson. But the Democrats have seen their chances decline in OH, a key battleground state that’s been leaning toward Trump, and New Hampshire, where Clinton’s numbers are weakening.