It also follows a disastrous seven-day stretch dominated by an underwhelming debate performance, a feud with former Miss Universe Alicia Machado, early morning Tweet storms and insinuations – without evidence – that Clinton cheated on her husband.
While Clinton ridiculed those comments in remarks to reporters, the Commission on Presidential Debates later acknowledged that “there were issues regarding Donald Trump’s audio that affected the sound level in the debate hall”.
Forty-four percent of likely OH voters support Clinton, while 42 percent back Trump.
After the Democratic National Convention, there was a great deal of speculation as to what the former commander-in-chief’s role, if any, would be in the Clinton campaign or the White House.
The issues were certain to take the spotlight Tuesday night at the first vice presidential debate between Republican nominee Indiana Gov. Mike Pence and Democratic nominee Virginia Sen.
She pointed out what a knife-edge North Carolina, which her husband narrowly lost in 2012 and narrowly won in 2008, is now skittering on; Mrs Clinton is leading in the state by about one percentage point.
Thousands of MI voters roared with approval as Donald Trump lashed out at an economic system he said was rigged against everyday Americans.
Emily Reichard said she plans to vote, but some of her friends won’t. Kelly Ayotte of New Hampshire said Monday that Trump is a role model for kids, then reversed herself, saying he is not. “Based on the president’s deep concern about the rhetoric of the Republican nominee, I feel confident telling you that he would not be comfortable with describing the nominee in that way”. “If Trump is elected and you voted for Gary Johnson, will you regret your decision if thousands of people are being deported and you didn’t vote for the only other viable candidate?”
“When we think our differences are more important than our common humanity, when we can’t look in the eyes of another human being who is doing the best he or she can and treat them like they are part of our shared human race, and our quickly passing life, we are in trouble”, he said. “I will not vote for a fake democracy that is dependent upon my silence”, he said. There has never been evidence of widespread voting fraud in the United States.
Iowa was the first of the battlegrounds to start in-person voting last Thursday.
But the core of Clinton’s case against Trump has always been that the Republican is too hypersensitive to be trusted in the Oval Office. Of the 39,435 people who have cast ballots, 58 percent were Democrats and 25 percent were Republicans – but that was much closer than in 2012.
For 2016, Clinton officials pointed in particular to a 13 percent increase in African-American and a 40 percent jump in Latino mail-in ballot requests. “We, for the first time in our history, at least are providing insurance to more than 90% of our people”.
In a story published online late Saturday, The Times said it anonymously received the first pages of Trump’s 1995 state income tax filings in New York, New Jersey and CT. “Don’t let people tell you there are no consequences to the election”, Clinton added. In-person voting doesn’t begin until October 24, so state Democrats are now strongly urging voters to vote by mail – including in a letter from President Barack Obama paid for by the party. Make the ideas more mainstream. She then spoke just after 3 p.m.at Reynolds Coliseum on the campus of North Carolina State University.