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Wisconsin focus group spotlights Clinton’s crisis of trust

During a focus group in Milwaukee last night, a dozen Wisconsinites who have voted for both a Democrat and a Republican for president in the past 16 years lamented the choice that looms before them in November.

The room split evenly. Four leaned to Clinton, four leaned to Donald Trump and four said they were truly undecided.

“Which states are you watching?” That’s a question I get a lot. There are Florida, Ohio and Pennsylvania, of course. Even more peripheral states like Georgia have made some news. But I’m increasingly interested in a state that few people seem to be talking about: Missouri. Polls show not only a tight presidential race in the Show-Me State, but also a fairly close Senate race. Oh, and Missouri may keep a Democrat in its governor’s mansion.

Hillary Clinton garnered a majority of the support in a new poll released today, passing 50 percent in a head-to-head matchup with Donald Trump and solidifying a lead built up after the party conventions a month ago.

The poll, conducted by Quinnipiac University, shows Clinton receiving 51 percent support from likely voters, giving her a 10 point margin over Donald Trump. The GOP nominee was backed by 41 percent of those surveyed, with a margin of error of +/- 2.5 points.

When Donald Trump expressed regret for causing “personal pain,” he might as well have been apologizing to Republicans alarmed at the way he has run his campaign since accepting the party’s nomination. Yet, for all his problems, Trump is still within striking distance in national polling. For that, he can thank the bad headlines that Hillary Clinton just can’t seem to shake.

Poll: Trump leads Clinton by 5 in Arizona

Donald Trump holds a five-point lead over Hillary Clinton among likely voters in Arizona, according to a CNN/ORC poll released on Wednesday.

Arizona has been a reliably red state in past presidential elections, and it is not among the 11 swing states being tracked by POLITICO’s Battleground States polling average. Republican nominee Mitt Romney carried the state by more than 10 percentage points in 2012. Trump leads Clinton 49 percent to 44 percent as of now, CNN/ORC found.

On Sunday, Aug. 21, Hillary Clinton’s campaign opened its Georgia headquarters in Atlanta. About 300 Democrats showed up at a yellow house in the city’s hip Castleberry Hill, a neighborhood of converted factories next to the rising framework of a new Falcons NFL stadium. The crowd took selfies under Clinton’s portrait in the entryway, near a poster emblazoned with Twitter hashtags such as #GAinplay. The guest of honor was actor Tony Goldwyn, who plays a philandering president in the ABC series Scandal.