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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.

The polls are coming in fast now. About 20 polls have been released today, and they confirm that Hillary Clinton still leads the presidential race but by a smaller margin than a few weeks ago. The FiveThirtyEight polls-only forecast gives her a 68 percent chance of winning the election, while the polls-plus forecast has her at a 67 percent chance. That’s about where both candidates stood yesterday.

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.

Reports: Team Trump raised $90 million in August

Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump and his joint fundraising committees raised a substantial $90 million last month, according to numbers first reported Wednesday by Fox News.

The haul is an improvement from the $80 million that Trump and the Republican National Committee reported collecting in July and marks the campaign’s best fundraising month of the election.

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.

Trump making a play for Virginia, despite long odds

Donald Trump will spend more money this week in Virginia than anywhere else. Of the $3.5 million in advertising time he’s booked, $1.9 million will go into the commonwealth. More specifically, $1.4 million will be spent in the D.C. market.

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.