| | | | Obama on FBI: 'We don't operate on innuendo' | | President Barack Obama warned against FBI "leaks" and "innuendo" in his first public comments about the agency's decision to disclose its new review into emails that could be relevant to Hillary Clinton's use of a private server. Speaking to NowThisNews in an interview taped yesterday and released today, Obama said he didn't want to meddle in the law enforcement process. But he criticized any action that might allow intimations or suggestions -- rather than facts -- to pervade the public's view of the case, without mentioning FBI Director James Comey by name.
The key quote: "I do think that there is a norm that when there are investigations, we don't operate on innuendo and we don't operate on incomplete information and we don't operate on leaks. We operate based on concrete decisions that are made."
More Justice Department scrutiny: An email released by WikiLeaks on Wednesday appears to show a senior Justice Department official sending information about the State Department's review of Clinton's emails to her presidential campaign, per CNN's Laura Koran.
There's turmoil within the ranks of the FBI over how the agency has treated the 2016 presidential candidates, report CNN's Evan Perez, Pamela Brown, Shimon Prokupecz and Scott Glover. | | "The Latino vote is up, overall vote is up, but the African-American vote right now is not as solid as it needs to be." | | | New polls show Trump making gains -- but not there yet | | New CNN/ORC polls show Donald Trump leading in Arizona and Nevada, with Hillary Clinton up in Florida and Pennsylvania. Here are the numbers:
Arizona: Trump 49%, Clinton 44%
Florida: Clinton 49%, Trump 47%
Pennsylvania: Clinton 48%, Trump 44%
Nevada: Trump 49%, Clinton 43%
But, but, but ... In Nevada, it appears Clinton's ground game is trouncing Trump's -- with Democrats building an early vote lead on track with President Barack Obama's 6-point win in 2012. A Republican official told me Trump can afford to lose Clark County -- home of Las Vegas, and more than two-thirds of Nevada's voters -- by about 6 points and still carry the state. To date, though, Democrats lead Republicans by 13.6 points in the early vote there. (The CNN/ORC poll had Trump up by 1 point in Clark County.) Don't miss my deep dive into Nevada's state of play.
More swing state polls...
Clinton is up in North Carolina, 47% to 44%, Quinnipiac finds. Trump, meanwhile, leads 46% to 41% in Ohio. Their results matched CNN's in Pennsylvania and Florida. The Washington Post's Philip Bump breaks down the good, the bad and the ugly for Clinton from today's state polls.
So what's Trump's road to 270?
Here's the deal: Trump's campaign acknowledges he has to win North Carolina, Florida, Ohio and Iowa -- but those only get him to 259 electoral votes. So where else can he look? Nevada (6 electoral votes), New Hampshire (4), Maine's second congressional district (1), Colorado (9), Wisconsin (10), Pennsylvania (20), Michigan (16), Virginia (13) and New Mexico (5) are where Trump's campaign is on the air, and where his surrogates are spending time. But every single one is going to be tough to flip. And the "must wins" -- especially North Carolina (15) -- aren't sure things.
What would Karl Rove do? He argued on Fox News today that going after Nevada and Colorado in tandem makes sense because -- with so few days left in the race -- Trump doesn't have time for West Coast trips spent only in one state. | | | Vice President Joe Biden took a moment to shield his eyes from Tampa's November sun by slipping on his Ray Bans today at a rally for Hillary Clinton. "I've been wearing these since I've been 15 years old," Biden said. | | Battleground roundup: Cruz heads back to Iowa | | Sen. Ted Cruz is set to make his first appearance on the campaign trail for Donald Trump -- but he won't do it alongside Trump. Instead, he'll campaign in Iowa -- the site of his Republican caucus victory -- and Michigan alongside Mike Pence, reports Politico's Matthew Nussbaum.
Kelly Ayotte dropped the hammer on Trump and Bill Clinton. The endangered New Hampshire Republican senator said, "I wouldn't want my daughter in the room with any of them."
Things are getting tight in Wisconsin. Republican Sen. Ron Johnson -- previously left for dead -- is showing signs of life.
A weird one from Indiana's 9th District -- which, by the way, is one of the three Chuck Todd says he'll be watching on Election Night: GOP candidate Trey Hollingsworth, who moved from Tennessee to run for Congress, is legally obligated to live in Virginia, North and South Carolina, Georgia and Ohio -- at the same time -- because of his business dealings. The Associated Press' Brian Slodysko and Tom Davies explain. | | | Plaintiffs in the Trump University case want to make Donald Trump's campaign-trail statements admissible in court. ... Actress Julia Louis-Dreyfus is backing Hillary Clinton, citing her position on climate science. ... It's Game 7 of the World Series tonight (Go Cubs!) -- but you won't be able to get away from politics. Clinton and Trump have each bought ads that will air nationally. | | | We'd love to share our other newsletters with you. Click above to subscribe to CNNMoney's Reliable Sources, an insider's look into the media brought to you by Brian Stelter. | | | Get the Nightcap, a comprehensive summary of the most important political news, delivered to your inbox daily. | | | | | |
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