Tuesday, 25 October 2016

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Polling Stations Open In Must-Win Florida


Polling stations have opened for early voting in the key battleground state of Florida, where Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump remain in a tight race.

Trump is blitzing the state with five rallies while Mrs Clinton is also swinging through the Sunshine State.

Early voting by mail began in Florida weeks ago, with over a million people having already cast their votes.

Mrs Clinton holds a narrow three-point lead over Mr Trump in Florida, according to a new CBS/YouGov poll.

The former Secretary of State had 46% of the vote compared with Trump’s 43%, the poll found.

Recent polls have put Mrs Clinton well ahead of her Republican rival both nationally and in several battleground states.

A new CNN/ORC national poll put Mrs Clinton six points ahead among likely voters, at 51% to 45% in a head-to-head with Trump.

Polling in Republican strongholds including Arizona, Georgia and Utah have also shown closer-than-expected races.

But speaking at a rally in St Augustine on Monday, Trump, said: “Folks, we’re winning. We’re winning. We’re winning.”

He once again blamed the media, which he described as being composed of “thieves and crooks” and “almost as crooked as Hillary”, and said the system is “corrupt and rigged and broken”.

Pollsters also came under fire, with Trump claiming the hacked emails of John Podesta showed the Clinton campaign chair was “rigging the polls by oversampling Democrats”.

The Republican nominee also hit out at his rival’s use of a personal email server while Secretary of State, saying the FBI and Justice Department had inappropriately let her off the hook, reports the BBC.

“We have to investigate the investigation,” he said.

And he addressed the latest allegation of sexual misconduct from Jessica Drake, a 42-year-old adult film star who said the Republican nominee grabbed her and kissed her without permission 10 years ago.

“And she’s a porn star… Oh, I’m sure she’s never been grabbed before,” he said, adding that he will sue all the “liars” after the election.

Meanwhile Clinton ally Senator Elizabeth Warren lashed out on Monday against Donald Trump at a new Hampshire rally over comments that he has made about women, saying that the candidate “disrespects – aggressively disrespects – more than half the human beings in this country.”

“On November 8th, we nasty women are going to march our nasty feet to cast our nasty votes, to get you out of our lives forever”, Mrs Warren said, referring to a comment made by Trump in the final debate, where he called Mrs Clinton “such a nasty woman”.

She also hit out at Trump over his obscene remarks about women, which emerged in a 2005 videotape.

“He thinks that because he has a mouthful of Tic Tacs he can force himself on any woman within groping distance,” she said. “Well I’ve got news for you Donald Trump. Women have had it with guys like you.”

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