Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump rebuffed political aides’ requests to research his past, people familiar with the matter said, a decision that contributed to his campaign being caught unprepared for the past week’s barrage of claims he mistreated women.
Corey Lewandowski, Trump’s first campaign manager, requested that Trump submit himself to a forensic evaluation that is traditional for any public figure seeking office, according to people granted anonymity to speak freely about the campaign’s start-up days last year.
Read More >>Hillary Clinton leads Donald Trump by four points in North Carolina, while Trump is ahead by one in Ohio, according to two new NBC News/Wall Street Journal/Marist polls of these states.
In North Carolina, Clinton gets support from 45 percent of likely voters, Trump gets 41 percent, and Libertarian Gary Johnson gets 9 percent. (The Green Party’s Jill Stein didn’t qualify to make the ballot in the state.)
Hillary Clinton’s campaign is making “a strong play” to win Utah, a state that Democrats have not carried since 1964, her running mate, Tim Kaine, said Thursday.
Kaine, the party’s vice-presidential nominee, spoke to a Salt Lake City television station remotely from New York, relaying that the Clinton campaign will step up its focus on the state, where it sees an opportunity against a weakened Donald Trump.
Read More >>Donald Trump cast himself in almost messianic terms Thursday in Florida, describing the presidential race as “a struggle for the survival of our nation” and vowing to win the White House despite all the “slings and arrows” being hurled in his direction.
Hillary Clinton holds only a slim, three-point lead over Donald Trump in New Hampshire, according to a new poll out Friday that also shows close races for Senate and governor.
The MassINC Polling Group/WBUR-FM poll shows Clinton leading Trump, 41 percent to 38 percent — well within the poll’s margin of error of plus or minus 4.4 percentage points.
Read More >>Donald Trump took a defiant stance on the campaign trail Thursday, angrily denying the latest allegations of sexual misconduct amid fresh poll results that indicate his already narrow path to the White House is constricting.
The Republican nominee trailed Democrat Hillary Clinton by 4 percentage points in North Carolina, and was ahead by 1 point in Ohio, according to Wall Street Journal/NBC News/Marist polls released Thursday.
Read More >>Believe it or not, North Carolina residents have been voting for a month already.
In-person early voting starts October 20, but absentee voting is well underway and an early pattern has emerged that doesn’t bode well for Donald Trump, or down-ballot Republicans.
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