Trump’s team concedes both publicly and privately that his electoral map is bleak. And GOP leaders are growing increasingly worried that his weak standing jeopardizes vulnerable Republican Senate candidates in battlegrounds like Florida, New Hampshire and Pennsylvania. The New York billionaire on Monday lashed out at the media, a regular target of his struggling campaign: […]
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Hacked emails show Hillary Clinton aides suggested email jokes
WASHINGTON — Hacked emails from the personal account of Hillary Clinton’s top campaign official show her aides considered inserting jokes about her private email server into her speeches at several events — and at least one joke made it into her remarks. “I love it,” she told a dinner in Iowa on August 14, 2015, […]
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Corruption in the Clinton machine
I believe Hillary Clinton is a criminal and should be indicted. She has done more harm with all her scandals than Richard Nixon ever did. Clinton is a liar with a horrendous track record as secretary of state, but most or all media are favoring Clinton and play up attacks on Donald Trump. Uninformed people […]
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Maine is getting outsize attention from Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump
MILLINOCKET — Michael Madore and Tom Leet remember when this was called the “Magic City,” an oasis of prosperity in the dense Maine woods. The magic and the paper mills that created it are gone, and the men disagree on which presidential candidate can best help bring something – anything – back. But they know […]
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Fact checking Hillary Clinton’s and Donald Trump’s debate claims
A look at some of the claims in the debate and how they compare with the facts: TRUMP: “We’re not making things anymore, relatively speaking.” THE FACTS: Despite his “relatively speaking” hedge, the assertion is wrong. U.S. factory production has more than doubled since 1979, when manufacturing employment was at its peak. The problem is […]
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Clinton being picky
Whatever happened to free speech? Donald Trump was talking with a friend and when it became known what he said, Hillary Clinton started picking Trump apart. She didn’t say much when her husband got involved in sexual acts right in the White House. She should be concentrating on the problems facing this country. Steven Mortimer, […]
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Donald Trump refuses to say he will accept election results
LAS VEGAS — Threatening to upend a fundamental pillar of American democracy, Donald Trump refused to say Wednesday night that he will accept the results of next month’s election if he loses to Hillary Clinton. The Democratic nominee declared Trump’s resistance “horrifying.” Trump had spent the days leading up to the third and final presidential […]
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Mitchell campaigns for Clinton in Lewiston
LEWISTON — Six years ago, while serving as a special envoy to the Middle East, former U.S. Sen. George Mitchell sat behind closed doors with Secretary of State Hillary Clinton at a Red Sea resort, talking with the leaders of Israel and Palestine. It was just one of many times that Mitchell had the chance […]
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Mike Pence accuses media of doing Hillary Clinton’s work
WASHINGTON — Coverage of the U.S. presidential race (all times EDT): Pence says media fighting for Clinton Updated 5:23 p.m.: Mike Pence is joining Donald Trump in relentlessly hammering the national media coverage of the presidential race. The Republican vice presidential candidate told supporters Tuesday in Wilmington, North Carolina, that the election is not “exactly […]
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Hillary Clinton’s emails could become a debate point again
WASHINGTON — Republicans are seizing the latest developments in the Hillary Clinton email controversy as an issue that could help Donald Trump make up ground in the final presidential debate — if he can hammer home the message. It follows news that the State Department had asked FBI officials to lower the classification of a […]