Trump climbs in polls as Facebook chatter about him plummets

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The poll found that Trump has an 18 point edge among political independents, “significantly higher than Republicans have held in recent elections”, according to the Washington Post.

In a surprise Friday afternoon announcement, FBI director James Comey informed members of Congress that emails found on Weiner’s laptop during an investigation into his exchanges with a 15-year-old girl could be related to their probe into Clinton’s private email server.

FBI Director James Comey revealed the existence of the emails in a remarkable and ambiguous letter to Congress on Friday. The NBC News/SurveyMonkey weekly poll showed Clinton’s six percentage point national lead essentially unchanged since last week.

“The president doesn’t believe that Director Comey is intentionally trying to influence the outcome of an election”, White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest said.

Karen Dunn, an attorney for Abedin, said Abedin had cooperated extensively with Federal Bureau of Investigation and State Department requests and had provided “her work-related and potentially work-related documents”.

Mr Comey concluded in July that while Ms Clinton and her staff had been “extremely careless” in handling classified information, there were no grounds for any charges.

Gowdy, who chaired the House Select Committee on Benghazi, said blame directed at Comey is misplaced.

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A FORMER FBI chief has branded the Clintons a “crime family” and placed them in the same category as notorious mobsters like the Gambinos. The FBI hoped to complete a preliminary assessment in the coming days, but agency officials have not decided how, or whether, they will disclose the results of it publicly, and officials also could not say whether the entire review would be completed by election day. And Clinton, who leads Trump by 17 percent among those who haven’t voted, has only a 21 percent lead overall in the state.

Hillary Clinton’s supporters’ enthusiasm had slumped to 43 per cent whereas that figure was at a steady 53 per cent for Donald Trump. ABC noted that “strong enthusiasm” for Clinton has dropped by seven points since this survey began tracking voters, with a steady decline over the weekend.

Democratic U.S. Sen. Harry Reid of Nevada even went so far as to suggest that it’s Comey who should be under criminal investigation for writing the letter announcing resumption of the probe.

Gowdy also responded to Clinton’s attempt to distance herself from Abedin and her emails.

And the latest Reuters/Ipsos poll on Monday gave a 44-39 lead to Mrs Clinton. Seventeen of the individual models produce a 45 percent Clinton, 46 percent Trump race, as does the average of all 23. Ford Motor (F), one of Trump’s campaign punching bags for its plans to shift small auto production to Mexico, quickly lost about 1.9% of its value before recovering somewhat. I want you to know my previous testimony has changed.