Trump Closes In On Clinton In CBS-New York Times Poll

Comey’s decision to announce a reopening of the Clinton investigation 11 days before the election flies in the face of the FBI’s decision this summer to abide by a Justice Department request to keep quiet about an ongoing investigation of former Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort so as not to impact the presidential election. She’s also trying to change the subject.

“‘Stay on point, Donald, stay on point, ‘” Trump, campaigning in Florida, teasingly quoted his staff as saying. The Clinton campaign recently released a video about him to hit Trump on his immigration positions. Vukmir says Trump will bolster the military and defeat Islamic State terrorists. Now the FBI has launched a new investigation.

That’s a shift from the general assumption over the summer and at times this fall that Trump was likely going down in flames in a blowout loss. “This isn’t ‘Survivor.’ This isn’t ‘The Bachelorette.'” Obama said, taunting the former reality-TV star. “This, my friends, is not a normal election”. Comey has said the emails appear to be pertinent, but may or may not be significant, to its initial investigation of Clinton’s private server.

Clinton traveled to Arizona, which Democrats haven’t won since 1996 when her husband Bill claimed the presidency by a landslide.

Clinton stuck with her sharp-edged closing argument as polls showed her once-hefty lead noticeably trimmed in recent days. They continue to rally behind the Republican nominee, though he rejects that support.

“Here we go again with the Clintons – you remember the impeachment and the problems”.

“And once we do that, then we put ourselves in a position to win one of those other swing states”, Trump deputy campaign manager David Bossie said.

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Clinton continued to push down-ballot Democrats, but also took a swipe at local Sheriff Joe Arpaio – who has made a name for himself by targeting Latinos – and urged voters to support his opponent.

“This state is in play for the first time in years”, Clinton exclaimed during a nighttime rally on the campus of Arizona State University.

Buoyed by a new set of surveys showing him tied or even slightly ahead of Clinton, Trump and aides are expressing newfound optimism that’s reflected in taunts of their critics and television ad buys in normally Democratic-leaning states.

“The campaigns are interested in potential tipping-point states if the race closes to 50-50 nationally, not just where they are in the polls right now”, Matt Grossmann, director of the Institute for Public Policy and Social Research at Michigan State University, told the LA Times.

“We don’t want to blow this”, he told rowdy supporters in Miami.

Those – plus making sure he doesn’t surrender other typically Republican states, and winning the one electoral vote that can come from Maine’s Second Congressional District – get Trump to 260 electoral votes. Clinton was in Republican-dominated Arizona this week trying to energize voters to get the state to flip to blue. A new ad from Future45, a pro-Trump super PAC, is attempting to compare Clinton to Richard Nixon.

For Clinton supporters, it has been a quick shift from confidence to anxiety.

She was joined by Democratic Senate candidates at her rallies as she slammed sitting Republicans, such as Pennsylvania’s Pat Toomey and North Carolina’s Richard Burr.

Both campaigns, however, focused on turning out core supporters Wednesday.