Hillary Clinton lies low to give Donald Trump every opportunity to self-destruct
Washington — Donald Trump fired off an erratic broadside at Hillary Clinton on Sunday, making more explosive claims that US media and a conspiracy to commit voter fraud are rigging the US presidential election against him. Amid the latest Twitter blasts from the Republican White House nominee, his running mate Mike Pence sought to lower tension by insisting his camp would accept defeat if that’s what voters decide on November 8. Two polls out on Sunday — carried out in time to gauge voter reaction to last week’s slew of sexual misconduct allegations against Trump — put Clinton ahead. But they did so by vastly different numbers: an ABC News/Washington Post survey had Clinton four points ahead while an NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll put her margin at 11 points. Trump, in a long stream of tweets on Sunday, said repeatedly that US media were rigging the election by hammering away at what he calls fabricated accounts of him making unwanted sexual advances on women. Trump denies those ...
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