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According to a new WBUR poll of New Hampshire voters, Hillary Clinton is enjoying a dramatic post-convention bump and now leads Donald Trump by 15 points.

Trump’s shrinking electoral map

The 2016 battleground map may soon have one fewer state on it.

With a clear lead in the polls, demographic advantages, and a rival who is out of sync with local GOP leaders, Hillary Clinton is beginning to put some distance between her campaign and Donald Trump, raising the prospect that Colorado, a pivotal swing state, is too far gone for Trump to catch up.

Meg Whitman, Calling Donald Trump a ‘Demagogue,’ Will Support Hillary Clinton for President

Meg Whitman, a Hewlett Packard executive and Republican fund-raiser, said Tuesday that she would support Hillary Clinton for president and give a “substantial” contribution to her campaign in order to stop Donald J. Trump, whom she berated as a threat to American democracy.

“I will vote for Hillary, I will talk to my Republican friends about helping her, and I will donate to her campaign and try to raise money for her,” Ms. Whitman said in a telephone interview.

Allies fault ‘stubborn’ Clinton on emails

Weeks after the Justice Department decided not to press charges against Hillary Clinton for a private email setup that she has admitted was inappropriate, the Democratic presidential nominee’s campaign can’t seem to put the issue to bed.

Instead of finding a way to let the issue die, Clinton has time and again inflamed criticism about the “homebrew” server, by at times growing increasingly defensive and refusing to answer questions about the setup in the basement of her New York home.

Democrats make a play to turn Arizona blue

It has been two decades since Arizona’s red-state status was in doubt in a presidential election. But that was before Donald Trump and his build-a-border-wall platform won the GOP primary and inflamed anti-Republican sentiment among Latino voters.

Clinton campaign reports nearly $90 million raised in July

Hillary Clinton raised nearly $90 million between her campaign and joint fundraising agreements with the state and national parties in July, the Democratic nominee’s campaign announced Tuesday.

The campaign began August with more than $58 million on hand, with the average July donation coming in at $44 and 54 percent of the last month’s contributions coming from new donors.

Five ways Clinton hopes to keep her momentum

The Democratic convention and its aftermath couldn’t have gone much better for Hillary Clinton and Democrats.

In Philadelphia, the party’s faithful were bolstered by a well-organized convention that featured stellar speeches from first lady Michelle Obama, Vice President Biden and President Obama, and a coalescing of the left flank around Clinton.