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Clinton holds double-digit lead over Trump in national poll

Hillary Clinton has an 11-point lead over Donald Trump, according to a PRRI/The Atlantic poll released Tuesday.

Clinton is now favored by 49 percent of likely voters and Trump is backed by 38 percent.

Trump’s risky base-first strategy

Donald Trump adopted a base-first strategy at the second presidential debate, tossing red meat to his most fervent supporters in an effort to save his campaign from imploding.

Trump might have had little choice after an extraordinary weekend that saw Republicans fleeing his campaign.

Polls conducted since the disclosure of a tape on Friday, in which Donald Trump was recorded condoning unwanted sexual contact against women, suggest that he has probably lost further ground against Hillary Clinton. But the polls aren’t in much agreement, with some polls showing little change in the race and others implying that the tape has had catastrophic consequences for his campaign.

Donald Trump is making endorsement history — and not in a good way

Donald Trump loves breaking records. He has boasted about earning more votes in a Republican presidential primary than any candidate in history and helping set a new mark for debate viewership.

But lately Trump has been breaking endorsement records at various news outlets — and not in the good way. Publications that have backed the Republican Party nominee for decades are refusing to do so. Some that have rarely, if ever, endorsed a Democrat — or any candidate at all — have done just that.

Clinton sees new opportunities to woo Republicans in Trump’s troubles

A buoyant Hillary Clinton promised Monday to give Americans “something to vote for, not just something to vote against,” but made clear that Democrats see new opportunity to press the case against Republican Donald Trump in the final four weeks of the election contest.

Riding high as Republicans sank into a historic internal crisis over Trump’s behavior, Clinton strode into the nation’s Rust Belt, pledging to push a “renaissance” of advanced manufacturing and sharply criticizing Trump’s commitment to blue-collar workers.

While Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton went back and forth on national television for the first time last month, Libertarian candidate Gary Johnson sat in an office 30-something miles away, watching closely with social media at the ready.

When the Republican and Democrat take the stage again Sunday night for the second debate, Mr. Johnson and Green Party candidate Jill Stein will once again be noticeably absent.

GOP insiders: Trump’s off life support

Swing-state Republicans are breathing a sigh of relief, convinced that embattled GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump successfully took the fight to Hillary Clinton in Sunday night’s acrimonious town-hall debate.