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Forum Offers Preview of Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump Presidential Debate

Hillary Clinton vowed not to send American ground troops to Iraq “ever again” and Donald J. Trump insinuated that he had learned shocking new information involving President Obama — without ever revealing it — as the two candidates made back-to-back appearances Wednesday night at a forum that foreshadowed their highly anticipated debate later this month.

Donald Trump is decisively winning white voters who don’t have more than a high-school education, but his stubborn unpopularity with minorities has given Hillary Clinton a narrow overall lead with America’s least-educated voters.

Those findings from the latest Purple Slice online poll for Bloomberg Politics highlight two of the biggest demographic fault lines in this year’s presidential race: educational attainment and race.

Will Trump or Clinton win? The 11 states deciding the race

The final sprint toward Election Day has begun, and Donald Trump is reeling in Hillary Clinton’s lead.

A new CNN/ORC poll on Tuesday morning showed Trump leading by 2 points nationally, sending shockwaves through Democratic ranks. Clinton’s advantage in the RealClearPolitics polling average was down to 3.3 points, less than half of what it was at its peak.

If you use pub­lic polling as your guide star for the pres­id­en­tial elec­tion, the read­ings an­nounced Tues­day would make your head spin. First, CNN re­leased a sur­vey show­ing Don­ald Trump pulling in­to the lead by 2 points over Hil­lary Clin­ton among likely voters, one of the few times a na­tion­al poll has found the Re­pub­lic­an ahead in months. But wait: The Wash­ing­ton Post com­mis­sioned a land­mark poll from the on­line poll­ster Sur­vey­Mon­key show­ing Clin­ton with a com­mand­ing elect­or­al-vote lead, ahead in solidly Re­pub­lic­an Texas, and with­in strik­ing dis­tance in Mis­sis­sippi.

I, for one, welcome the unofficial end of summer. I’ll miss the Olympics and fancy tomato salads. But it’s an election year, and Labor Day is usually accompanied by a return to more substantive news cycles — along with a significant increase in the amount of polling.

The post-Labor Day sprint to the presidential election began with welcome news for Donald Trump. A CNN national poll of likely voters released Tuesday found him 2 points ahead of Hillary Clinton, who has made few public appearances in recent weeks while barnstorming the fundraising circuit.