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As she gains in polls, Clinton seeks Latino support in unusual places

With Latinos making up just 2 percent of voters, Georgia isn’t usually a place where presidential campaigns go looking for Hispanic support.

But as she pulls away from Donald Trump in traditional battlegrounds, Hillary Clinton is now aggressively wooing Latino voters here and in other states with smaller Hispanic populations in hopes of expanding her margins in November.

With Donald Trump on one side, and Jill Stein on the other, Hillary Clinton may have hit the opponent jackpot.

Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders ran in the primaries as a self-described Democratic socialist by anchoring his radical message in bedrock American values and using language that rendered himself safe for consumption by a wide swath of the electorate.

Hillary Clinton’s chances of winning the presidency have held fairly steady in the FiveThirtyEight models over the past 10 days. The polls-only forecast currently gives her an 88 percent chance of winning; since Aug. 7, her chances according to that model have been between 83 percent and 89 percent. The polls-plus forecast puts Clinton’s chance of winning at 78 percent; over the past 10 days, her chances according to that model have been between 76 percent and 80 percent. Indeed, Clinton’s post-convention bounce has stuck around so long that Donald Trump has been reduced to tweeting out a poll that showed him close but still losing.

Lots of our election coverage of late (here, here, here and here, for example) has been about the presidential race settling into what seems like a new equilibrium: Hillary Clinton leading Donald Trump by about 7 or 8 percentage points nationally. She’s a clear favorite according to our models, with an 87 percent chance of winning according to polls-only and a 76 percent chance according to polls-plus. But that still leaves Donald Trump with a 13 percent or 24 percent chance of a comeback. So, today, let’s talk about the universes contained in those probabilities. Trump can still win, but how?

Hillary Clinton’s campaign is looking to turn Utah blue in 2016, something no Democratic presidential candidate has been able to achieve since 1964.

Marlon Marshall, Clinton’s director of state campaigns, said the conditions may be right for a political sea change.

Trump unpopularity fuels wide lead for Clinton in new Virginia poll

Hillary Clinton holds a commanding lead over Donald Trump in Virginia, with disdain for the Republican presidential nominee helping Clinton overcome her own vulnerabilities, a new Washington Post poll finds.

Clinton leads Trump by a 14-point margin — 52 percent to 38 percent — among registered voters in the state and by an eight-point margin among likely voters, 51 percent to 43 percent. Clinton’s edge dips to seven points among likely voters when third-party candidates are included.

Hillary Clinton leads Donald Trump by 9 points — 50 percent to 41 percent — in the latest NBC News|SurveyMonkey Weekly Election Tracking Poll.

The numbers were virtually unchanged since last week’s poll. Generally low favorability and negative attitudes among voters plague both candidates, however, as they make appeals to voters in key swing states in the weeks ahead.