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Clinton Hits New Roadblocks In Campaign For White House

By Amie Parnes - Aug 25, 2016 - The Hill

Hillary Clinton has hit a rough patch at a critical time in the race for the White House.

A new batch of 14,900 emails found by the FBI is threatening to throw her off message, and the drip-drip release of emails will be something to contend with through Election Day.

Clinton’s campaign is also facing new questions about the Clinton Foundation after separate emails were released that showed a foundation official seeking time with Clinton for a donor.
Days later, the Associated Press ran a story, which the Clinton campaign has repeatedly attacked, detailing links between Clinton Foundation donors and meetings with former Secretary of State Clinton.

If that weren’t enough, a lingering GOP perjury threats looms over Brooklyn, as House Republicans have promised action this fall.

The string of negative headlines follows weeks of good news for Clinton.

A successful convention and repeated mistakes by Republican nominee Donald Trump have strengthened her standing as the favorite to be elected president.

A Quinnipiac poll released on Thursday found her with a 10-point lead over Trump, and battleground state maps suggest she could win the presidency even if she loses the critical battleground states of Florida and Ohio, where polls show she is running neck-and-neck or ahead of Trump.

To an extent, it makes the bad headlines easier to accept, though Clinton allies are nonetheless worried the campaign could lose momentum after a rough week.

“Typical,” said one Clinton surrogate. “We have a good few weeks with the wind at our backs and then something unexpected comes out and shoots us in the foot.”

Clinton sought to pivot on Thursday with a speech that ripped Trump’s association with white nationalists. The speech raised links between Trump and the “alt-right” movement, and specifically hit Trump for re-tweeting white supremacist Twitter accounts.

“Trump’s lack of knowledge or experience or solutions would be bad enough," Clinton said. "But what he’s doing here is more sinister. Trump is reinforcing harmful stereotypes and offering a dog whistle to his most hateful supporters."

The new aggressive attack from Clinton comes after a solid week on the campaign trail for Trump, who is winning applause for a campaign reboot.

Since hiring a new campaign team, Trump for the most part has stuck to the teleprompter and his talking points. Late last week, he even traveled to flood-ravaged Louisiana, putting Clinton and President Obama on the defensive.

It was a reverse from the Trump who made a series of gaffes in recent weeks from attacking a gold star military family to suggesting “Second Amendment people” may be able to prevent Clinton from making judicial nominees, a story that dominated the news cycle for several days.

“He’s been incredibly disciplined recently,” said one top Democratic strategist, who attributed Trump’s recent success to his new campaign manager Kellyanne Conway. “No major eruptions. When that happens, I’d expect the polls to tighten up.”

Clinton has been forced to play defense this week over the Clinton Foundation.

In an interview with CNN’s Anderson Cooper on Wednesday evening, she said he work as Secretary of State was “not influenced by outside forces.”

“I know there’s a lot of smoke and there’s no fire,” she said.

Aides and Democrats close to the Clinton campaign think their candidate can survive the recent pitfalls, particularly given her opponent.

“I still think the email and foundation issues, while they will continue to be something of a distraction, are not fatal, and pale in comparison to the problems Trump faces,” one longtime Clinton adviser said.

Still, the Clinton team cannot afford to be complacent or overconfident.

Last weekend, the Washington Post reported that Clinton has started “ramping up” for a possible presidency as polls indicated the Democratic nominee had widened her lead over Trump. The story indicated that Clinton has an agenda that includes passing immigration reform along with measures focusing on job creation and taking on increased infrastructure projects.

Democrats say Clinton must do what ever she can to keep the focus on Trump, and not on her own controversies.

“What she needs to do is keep beating up on Trump,” said Brad Bannon, a Democratic strategist. “The more this is about Donald Trump, the more likely it is that she's going to win. She needs to put the onus of the campaign back on him.”

Clinton has a heavy advantage over Trump among minority voters, according to polls. She also is doing well with women in general, and college-educated white voters in particular.

Thursday’s speech linking Trump to racism is targeted toward all of those voters.

Trump is seeking to fight back, both with an appeal to minority voters and by calling Clinton a “bigot” during an event Wednesday night.

As she faces increasing scrutiny, allies acknowledge it highlights the larger problem that looms over her campaign: Trust.

“There’s often smoke and that has followed her around like a cloud,” David Axelrod, who served as Obama’s chief strategist said Wednesday on CNN.

Other Democrats said the foundation and email controversies are both problems for Clinton.

“People who are concerned about the foundation and email, have to be given reasons to vote for her instead of Trump,” one Democratic strategist said.

http://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/293385-clinton-hits-new-roadblocks-in-campaign-for-white-house


Judge Orders State To Begin Releasing Clinton Emails Next Month

By Ben Kamisar - Aug 25, 2016 - The Hill

The State Department must start releasing the additional 15,000 emails uncovered during the FBI's investigation into Hillary Clinton's private server starting on Sept. 13.

The date is a full month earlier than agency officials had hoped to begin the release.

State Department officials confirmed the existence of those emails to a separate federal judge on Monday. They also claimed they would need until Oct. 14 to review the documents to determine which were work-related and to prepare those for release. That judge had decided to give the State Department until Sept. 23 to iron out a schedule to release the emails in batches.

But another judge in Florida, overseeing a separate complaint from Judicial Watch, ruled Thursday that State must start releasing those emails on Sept. 13. That ruling would force to agency to drastically ramp up its work.
Judicial Watch lauded the judge's decision and accused Clinton of trying to delete relevant work emails.

It's "no wonder federal courts in Florida and DC are ordering the State Department to stop stalling and begin releasing the 14,900 new Clinton emails,” Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton said in the statement.

The new emails, turned over to the State Department by the FBI, are the latest revelation in the Clinton email saga that has dogged the Democratic presidential nominee since last spring. The new round of releases will keep the spotlight on the controversy and pressure on Clinton in the run-up to the election.

Clinton gave the State Department about 30,000 emails from her private server last year, which have been released by the agency on a rolling basis. She said she also deleted another 30,000 that she considered personal.

But FBI Director James Comey said in a press conference last month that Clinton had deleted "several thousand" work-related emails too, which the agency was able to recover.

It's unclear how many of the new emails are work related, or if the agency will be able to release all relevant emails before Election Day on Nov. 8.

Clinton's critics will keep up pressure for the State Department to act quickly.

Judicial Watch has previously accused the department of trying to slow the release of prior emails to avoid hurting Clinton ahead of the election.

The Justice Department cleared Clinton of allegations she mishandled classified information, but still criticized her use of the private email server.

The latest email discovery has only given new fire to Republicans, many of whom have questioned if Clinton received favorable treatment from the DOJ and if she misled Congress about her emails.

GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump has hammered Clinton over the email controversy and over her family's charity, the Clinton Foundation. Earlier this week, he called for a special investigator to look into those matters.

http://thehill.com/policy/national-security/293384-judge-orders-state-to-begin-releasing-clinton-emails-next-month

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