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Gary Johnson cuts into Clinton’s lead

Gary Johnson was never supposed to be a problem for Hillary Clinton.

The low-profile Libertarian’s presence on the ballot would serve as an easy out for #NeverTrump Republicans, Democrats aligned with the nominee have long figured, and that could only hurt Donald Trump.

Clinton prospects dim

The campaign of Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton has had a rough week, and the polls are reflecting it. The Hill offers this analysis:

Polls darken for Democrats

Trump has pulled into the lead in Florida and Ohio, two crucial states where he has trailed Clinton for most of the race, and several states that once looked out of reach for Trump — Colorado and Virginia, among them — suddenly appear competitive.

One survey showed Trump swinging to a lead in Nevada, a state ... Read More >>

Polls darken for Democrats

Hillary Clinton’s once formidable lead over Donald Trump in national and battleground polls is evaporating.

Trump has pulled into the lead in Florida and Ohio, two crucial states where he has trailed Clinton for most of the race, and several states that once looked out of reach for Trump — Colorado and Virginia, among them — suddenly appear competitive.

Clinton and Trump neck-and-neck in new national poll

Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump are in a virtual tie in a national poll released Thursday.

The CBS News/New York Times poll of likely voters found that the Democratic nominee is just 2 points ahead of Trump in a two-way matchup (46%-44%.) That difference is within the margin of error.

One of the most sur­pris­ing ele­ments of this pres­id­en­tial cam­paign is the lack of en­gage­ment from Pres­id­ent Obama’s di­verse base of mil­len­ni­als and non­white voters—des­pite the pres­ence of the deeply-di­vis­ive Don­ald Trump in the race. Polling sug­gests the race is highly com­pet­it­ive, driv­en by Trump’s sup­port­ers say­ing they’re more likely to show up at the polls than Hil­lary Clin­ton’s. And the main reas­on Clin­ton finds her­self in trouble is that she doesn’t ap­peal to many of the same voters who flocked to back Obama in 2008 and 2012.

Kellyanne Conway took over a struggling Trump campaign in late August and made a brazen prediction on CNBC: They would look back at the previous two weeks “and say, ‘Why in the world didn’t Hillary Clinton’s campaign totally put us away?’”

It took a few weeks longer than that for Trump to close the gap with the Democratic presidential nominee, who returned to the campaign trail on Thursday eager to move past visualizations of her stumbling and dizzy amid a health episode over the weekend.

Why Florida is still in play for Trump

The nation’s biggest battleground state should have buried Donald Trump’s White House hopes.

With Florida’s booming Hispanic population, Trump’s harsh immigration rhetoric sounded like political suicide. In a state where TV ads drive the electorate, Trump penny-pinched on air time.