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  • U.S. election: Clinton leads Trump in Sunday polls

    U.S. election: Clinton leads Trump in Sunday polls

    Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton holds a modest lead over Republican Donald Trump in the latest Washington Post-ABC Tracking Poll released on Sunday.

    In a Post-ABC poll released two days before, Clinton had led Trump by 47 per cent to 44 per cent.

    Clinton had an advantage in affirmative support, the poll said, with 55 per cent of backers saying they are mainly supporting her, compared with 43 per cent of Trump voters.

    More Trump voters say they “mainly oppose Clinton”.

    As early voting winds down, a spike in Latino turnout across the country appears to be giving Clinton an edge in battleground states.

    The final polls are trickling in and Clinton is retaining a modest lead nationally.

    Similarly, 44 per cent of likely voters support Clinton and 40 per cent back Trump, according to a new NBC News/WSJ national poll released on Sunday.

    Clinton holds big leads with women and minority voters, while men, white voters and senior citizens buttress Trump’s support.

    The Democratic candidate is also doing better with those who have already cast their ballots, but the Republican candidate holds a lead among voters who plan to do so on election day.

    Americans will vote for a new president on Tuesday but about 37 million voters have already chosen who they want to rule the country in early voting.

    The new poll came alongside a brief moment of drama in the final days of campaigning

    A correspondent of the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in the U.S. reports that both Clinton and Trump have concentrated their attention to battleground states that are the determinants of who wins the election.

    States like Arizona, Florida, North Carolina, Ohio and Virginia have the power to swing the election but so far, neither Trump nor Clinton has a significant lead in these crucial states.

    Florida has 29 Electoral College and if Clinton wins, Trump would have to win almost all every other swing state to be elected president.

    Ohio has 18 Electoral College votes and Trump needs to win Ohio if he is to have any chance.

    North Carolina has 15 and Obama won the state in 2008 but lost to Republican in 2012, but polls are split on how the state would fall.

    Virginia has 13 Electoral College votes and it had voted 10 consecutive Republican presidents before Obama won it in 2008 and 2012, but polls show that it is leaning towards Clinton.

    Arizona has 11 Electoral College votes and Trump needs to win it if he is to claim the White House.

    Currently, Clinton’s electoral vote total is at 268 when all the states that are solidly or leaning in her direction are added up against Trump’s 204.

    That leaves six remaining battleground contests worth a total of 66 electoral votes in Arizona, Florida, Nevada, New Hampshire, North Carolina, and the second congressional district in and around Omaha, Nebraska.

  • ‘I’ll no longer defend Trump’

    ‘I’ll no longer defend Trump’

     Speaker of the Unite States House of Representatives Paul Ryan (Republican) On Monday said that he would no longer defend presidential candidate Donald Trump, U.S. media reported.

    In a conference call on Monday with Republican lawmakers, Ryan said that he had no plan of campaigning with Trump before Election Day on November 8, this year, even as reports reveal that the speaker is currently the most powerful Republican.

    Ryan said that Republican Congress was needed to keep Hillary Clinton, the Democratic presidential candidate, in check if she wins.

    The speaker had initially hesitated to back Trump’s presidential bid but decided to endorse him in June.

    However, Ryan did not revoke his endorsement of Trump during his conference call.

    Trump came under pressure to withdraw from the race on Saturday after explicit comments he made about groping women in a 2005 conversation were leaked to the media.

    The Republican candidate was not invited to an event in Wisconsin in which he was billed to be the guest of honour alongside Ryan.

    Ryan appeared at the event and referred to the firestorm over Trump’s comments as the “elephant in the room,’’ saying he was “sickened’’ by Trump’s vulgar comments.

  • Hillary to resume campaign Thursday after pneumonia treatment

    Hillary to resume campaign Thursday after pneumonia treatment

    U.S. Democratic presidential nominee Hilary Clinton, who has been staying at home since swooning at a 9/11 memorial ceremony due to pneumonia, will return to campaign trail on Thursday.
    The former secretary of state is set to speak at the Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute gala in Washington D.C. on Thursday and due in several battleground states next week, said her campaign, which has promised to release Clinton’s medical records later this week.
    Donald Trump, her Republican rival, also promised to offer up more information about his health later this week, following quarrels between the two campaigns over which candidate is more secret about their health and wealth.
    A damaging video of Clinton’s faint at Ground Zero on Sunday has turned the issue of health transparency onto the central stage in their White House bids.
    Clinton was diagnosed pneumonia two days before she fainted on Sunday but her campaign had kept it quiet until the video was put online.
    However, earlier on Tuesday, Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid blasted the media for having blown Clinton’s pneumonia out of proportion.
    “You’ve all been unfair to Hillary, look at Donald Trump at his medical records, which are nonexistent,” he told reporters at a news conference.
    Also on Tuesday, Democratic vice presidential nominee Tim Kaine suggested that Clinton’s decision to keep campaigning despite suffering from pneumonia was influenced by the historic nature of her bid to become the country’s first woman president.
    The U.S is “uniquely bad at electing women to office,” the Virginia senator told a crowd at the University of Michigan, citing it a factor affecting her race against the New York billionaire.
    Only 19 per cent of the U.S. Congress is female, though it is the highest percentage in the country’s history, Kaine noted.
    The September race is observed unexpectedly rough for Clinton as her wounds were rubbed salt into continuously, including a gaffe about Republican “deplorable.”
    A series of national poll results show that her lead over Trump has been narrowed since Labour Day.

  • Poll: U.S candidates gear up for Super Tuesday

    Candidates bidding for their party’s ticket in the November United States presidential election face their biggest test yet in the so-called Super Tuesday primaries.

    At least 12 states cast votes for nominees from both the Republican and Democratic parties in a contest seen as make-or-break for the hopefuls, the BBC reports.

    Contests stretch from Massachusetts in the east to Alaska in the north-west.

    After earlier votes in four states, Donald Trump leads the Republican field and Hillary Clinton the Democrats.

    Senator Ted Cruz cannot afford to lose to Mr. Trump in Texas, his home state, while a reverse for Mr. Trump in Massachusetts, with its moderate voters, could break the property tycoon’s nationwide momentum.

    Mrs. Clinton is hoping to build on her weekend victory in South Carolina, where she polled heavily among African-Americans, to restore her political fortunes after a bruising defeat in New Hampshire to Bernie Sanders, her self-styled democratic socialist rival.

    On November 8, America is due to elect a successor to Barack Obama, a Democratic president standing down after two terms in office which have seen the Republicans take control of both houses of Congress.

    Opinion polls give Mr. Trump a lead in almost all of the 11 states holding Republican contests on Tuesday: Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Massachusetts, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Texas, Vermont, Virginia, Alaska and Minnesota.

    The colourful campaign of the billionaire, who won three of the four early voting states, has divided Republicans.

  • Donald Trump vows to beat Clinton to White House

    Republican presidential hopeful, Donald Trump has said he would easily beat Democratic rival Hillary Clinton in November’s presidential contest for the White House.

    The businessman with no political experience convincingly won the New Hampshire primary and has now laid out his strategy to go all the way.

    “I can change the game because I really have a chance of New York,” the BBC quoted Trump as saying to CBS on Wednesday morning.

    South Carolina is next in the state-by-state contest to be Republican pick.

    In the Democratic race, Nevada provides the next challenge, with Vermont Senator, Bernie Sanders, keen to carry on his momentum after a stunning victory over Mrs. Clinton in New Hampshire.

    But Mr. Trump dismissed him as an unlikely nominee because of his proposed tax increase, and focused instead on the former secretary of state and first lady.

    “Polls are showing that I will beat Hillary Clinton easily,” he said, before outlining his strategy to win states that traditionally have backed Democratic presidential candidates.

    “I have a chance of winning New York. You know, you look at these politicians they always talk about the six states – you’ve got to win this one, that one. You have to win Ohio, you have to win Florida.

    “I can change the game because I really have a chance of New York, I’m going to win Virginia. I’m going to win Michigan, as an example,” he stated.

  • U.S poll: Cruz wins Iowa Republican caucuses

    U.S poll: Cruz wins Iowa Republican caucuses

    Texas Senator, Ted Cruz, has won the Iowa Republican caucuses, the first vote to choose United States presidential candidates.

    “Tonight is a victory for courageous conservatives,” he declared, to great applause, as he railed against Washington, lobbyists and the media, the BBC reports.

    He took 28 per cent of the Republican vote, beating his rival, the frontrunner Donald Trump, and Marco Rubio.

    Votes in the Democratic race are still being counted, with Hillary Clinton’s camp saying they have narrowly won.

    The aim of the primary and caucus races in the coming months is to determine which candidates will stand for the two main parties in the November presidential election.

    Iowa caucus results

    Republican vote, 99% reported:

    Ted Cruz: 28%, eight delegates

    Donald Trump: 24%, seven delegates

    Marco Rubio: 23%, seven delegates

    Ben Carson: 9%, three delegates

    Democratic vote, 99% reported:

    Hillary Clinton: 50%, 22 delegates

    Bernie Sanders 50%, 21 delegates

    Martin O’Malley, 1%, no delegates

    Clinton’s spokesman, Brian Fallon, said the former secretary of state and first lady would beat Bernie Sanders, a 74-year-old senator from Vermont, by two delegates in Iowa.

    In five precincts the vote was decided by the toss of a coin – all going to Ms Clinton, according to the Des Moines Register.

    Mr. Sanders said it was a “virtual tie” and Mrs. Clinton told her supporters she was “breathing a sigh of relief.”

     

  • Clinton to hand over email server to FBI

    Clinton to hand over email server to FBI

    Democratic Party presidential hopeful, Hillary Clinton, has agreed to hand over to the FBI the private email server that she used as secretary of state.

    Her use of private email has generated a barrage of criticism as Mrs. Clinton runs for president.

    Critics said that her set-up was unsecure, contrary to government policy and designed to shield her communications from oversight, the BBC reports.

    The FBI is investigating whether classified information was improperly sent via the server and stored there.

    Mrs. Clinton initially handed over thousands of pages of emails to the state department, but not the server.

    Her lawyers will also hand over to the FBI memory sticks which contain the copies of the emails.

    Her use of private email has been a major issue in the presidential race. Polls show an increasing number of voters view her as “untrustworthy” due in part to the questions surrounding her email use.

    Under United States federal law, officials’ correspondence is considered to be U.S government property.

    Government employees are encouraged to use government email accounts although some top officials have used personal accounts in the past.

    In March, Mrs. Clinton said she and her lawyers made the decision over what would be considered work-related email when the state department asked for records from former secretaries of state.

    The emails deemed work-related were about half of the 60,000 emails she sent in total during her time in office. The emails she deemed personal were deleted, Mrs. Clinton said.

    Since then, the state department has been releasing the emails to the public in batches about once a month.

  • Clinton’s wife fined £80 by traffic warden

    Clinton’s wife fined £80 by traffic warden

    The former United States secretary of state was in town to receive a prize from the Chatham House think tank last week for her work in promoting “a new era of US diplomatic engagement.”

    But her entourage failed to buy the £3.30 ticket required to park the Mercedes for an hour on the exclusive St James’ Square in central London, and received a £80 fine.

    “The former US secretary of state was parked for nearly 45 minutes without paying,” said Daniel Astaire, an elected member of Westminster City Council.

    “I’m sure she will understand that we have to be fair to everyone, regardless of their status on the world stage.”

    There is some good news for former first lady Clinton, however — if she pays up within 14 days, the fine will be halved to £40.

    AFP reports that London Mayor Boris Johnson has previously complained about the refusal of US diplomats to pay a ten pound daily charge for the congestion zone in the centre of the capital.

     

     

  • Hilary Clinton has blood clot

    Hilary Clinton has blood clot

    United States Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton has been admitted to hospital in New York with a blood clot, officials told The BBC.

    Mrs. Clinton suffered a concussion earlier this month after fainting and falling down.

    At the time, she was reported to have had a stomach virus and to have passed out after becoming dehydrated.

    Mrs. Clinton, 65, is due to stand down as secretary of state before U.S President Barack Obama officially begins his second term in January.

    Doctors discovered the clot during a follow-up examination on Sunday, her spokesman Philippe Reines said.

    “She is being treated with anti-coagulants and is at New York-Presbyterian Hospital so that they can monitor the medication over the next 48 hours,” he said.

    “They will determine if any further action is required.”

    No information was given about where the blood clot had formed.

    Mrs. Clinton is due to give evidence before a Congressional committee in January in connection with the attack in September on the U.S consulate in the Libyan city of Benghazi.

    The U.S ambassador to Libya and three American officials were killed in the incident.

    Mrs. Clinton was appointed secretary of state at the start of Mr. Obama’s first term, in January 2009.

    Her most recent foreign trip was to Dublin earlier this month.

    She is known for her gruelling travel schedule.