Clinton focuses on healing, Trump on emails in final hours

[webfact]

Clinton focuses on healing, Trump on emails in final hours 
LISA LERER, Associated Press
JILL COLVIN, Associated Press

 

MANCHESTER, N.H. (AP) — With the cloud of an FBI investigation lifted, Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump struck strikingly different tones as they moved into the final hours of a volatile, nearly two-years long presidential campaign.

 

After days of full-throated attacks on Trump's qualifications and temperament, Clinton cast herself as the candidate of "healing and reconciliation" — perhaps a surprising position for a woman who's long been one of the most divisive figures in American politics.

 

She started her day with a visit to an African-American church in Philadelphia, where she spoke of her candidacy in almost spiritual terms, as she tried to motivate black voters in the crucial swing state. And she ended with an evening rally in Manchester, New Hampshire. That event featured remarks from Khizr Khan, the Muslim-American lawyer whose Army captain son was killed in Iraq, and soft rock from folk singer James Taylor.

 

"This election is a moment of reckoning," she told voters on Sunday night. "It is a choice between division and unity, between strong, steady leadership and a loose cannon who could put everything at risk." Clinton said she was "hopeful and optimistic" about the future.

 

Trump, meanwhile, voiced new confidence as he brought his campaign — and his dark visions of a rigged American economic and political system— to a series of states that have long been considered Democratic strongholds.

 

"This is a whole different ballgame," Trump said at a rally in an airport hangar in Minneapolis, predicting victory in a state that hasn't cast its electoral votes for a Republican since 1972.

 

Overshadowing the flurry of last-minute campaigning was the decision by FBI director James Comey to release a new letter to Congress stating that he'd found no evidence in its hurried review of newly discovered emails to warrant criminal charges against her.

 

Still, Trump continued to seize on the email issue, despite the FBI's finding.

 

"Hillary Clinton is guilty. She knows it, the FBI knows it, the people know," he said at a rally that drew thousands to an amphitheater in the Detroit suburbs. "And now it's up to the American people to deliver justice at the ballot box on November 8th."

 

Comey's announcement on Sunday capped a stunning chapter in the bitter, deeply divisive contest.

 

The FBI began investigating the handling of classified material on Clinton's private email server shortly after she announced her bid in April 2015. The issue has dogged Clinton's campaign and contributed to the questions a majority of Americans have about her honesty and trustworthiness.

 

Based on that review, Comey told lawmakers the FBI was not changing the conclusion it reached this summer. Then, Comey said, "no reasonable prosecutor" would recommend Clinton face criminal charges for using a private email system while at the State Department.

 

The director's initial decision to make a renewed inquiry into Clinton's emails public on Oct. 28 upended the campaign at a crucial moment, sapping a surging Clinton's momentum and giving Trump fresh ammunition to challenge her trustworthiness.

 

Clinton's campaign, furious at Comey's handling of the review, welcomed his latest announcement. Communications director Jennifer Palmieri told reporters, "We're glad this matter is resolved," though Clinton herself did not mention the issue at her campaign events.

 

The new review involves material found on a computer belonging to Anthony Weiner, the disgraced former congressman and estranged husband of Clinton aide Huma Abedin. While Comey was vague in his initial description of the inquiry, he said Sunday that the FBI reviewed communications "to or from Hillary Clinton while she was secretary of state."

 

Clinton still appears to hold an edge over Trump in the campaign's final stretch. The Republican has a narrow path to victory that requires him to win nearly all of the roughly dozen battleground states up for grabs.

 

The candidates spent Sunday sprinting across swing states as they sought to lock up support ahead of Election Day. As the campaign's final weekend drew to a close, more than 41 million Americans had already cast their ballots in early voting.

 

Clinton's high-wattage allies also fanned out across the country, including President Barack Obama, who was joined by musical icon Stevie Wonder at a rally in Florida. He'll join Clinton and her husband, former President Bill Clinton, first lady Michelle Obama along with rock stars Bruce Springsteen and Jon Bon Jovi at an evening rally in Philadelphia on Monday. She'll also campaign in Grand Rapids, Pittsburgh and Raleigh.

 

Trump's campaign manager Kellyanne Conway told reporters Sunday that Trump planned to keep up the breakneck campaign pace through Election Day. On Monday, he'll go to Florida, North Carolina, Pennsylvania and New Hampshire. After voting in New York Tuesday morning, Trump was expected to return to Pennsylvania, Michigan, Ohio, North Carolina and New Hampshire later in the day, Conway said.

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Associated Press writers Jonathan Lemire, Julie Pace and Marcy Gordon in Washington contributed to this report.

 

-- © Associated Press 2016-11-07

[webfact]

Trump calls for justice at the ballot box

 

 

MANCHESTER: -- Donald Trump claims the FBI has let his rival “get away with it” following the bureau chief’s announcement of there being no evidence of crime in Hillary Clinton’s emails.

 

On Sunday afternoon, FBI director James Comey released a letter to Congress that said the bureau had found no evidence of wrongdoing by Clinton in its review of emails discovered during an investigation into charges against Anthony Weiner, estranged husband of key aide Huma Abedin.

 

The FBI review related to Clinton’s use of a private email server while secretary of state, an issue over which the bureau had previously decided not to recommend an indictment.

 

The Republican presidential nominee was less than impressed by the FBI’s chief.

 

“Right now, she’s being protected by a rigged system. It’s a totally rigged system, I’ve been saying that for a long time. You can’t review 650,000 new e-mails in 8 days, you can’t do it, folks. Hillary Clinton is guilty, she knows it,

the FBI knows it, the people know it and now is up to the American people to deliver justice at the ballot box on November 8.”

 

Meanwhile Clinton was pulling out all the stops, focusing on swing states and calling on celebrities like basket ball player Lebron James to endorse her.

 

But on the topic of emails she stayed well away:

 

“ Look we know enough about what he says and what he’s done, you don’t need to go through the litany of all the people he’s insulted and demeaned but the bottom line is his vision of America is so dark and divisive. It’s not the America I see as I travel around our country. I want us to have a vision that is hopeful.”

 

Both candidates are now sprinting towards the Monday midnight finishing line of one of the most bitter and aggressive US presidential campaigns of modern times.

 

Seeking to become the first female president, Clinton will end her campaign with a rally in the battleground state of North Carolina at midnight on Monday. Republican candidate Trump will close his at 11pm that night with an event in Grand Rapids, Michigan, a state where he is hoping to pull off a huge surprise.

 

 

 

-- © Copyright Euronews 2016-11-07

[Silurian]

1 hour ago, webfact said:

Still, Trump continued to seize on the email issue, despite the FBI's finding.

 

Guess, that is it for DT. He has got nothing left. Just spewing the same remark regarding emails over and over again. Just a constant drone of a dying siren call. Cry wolf email enough times, people will stop listening.

[JLCrab]

59 minutes ago, webfact said:

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The Republican presidential nominee was less than impressed by the FBI’s chief.

 

“Right now, she’s being protected by a rigged system. It’s a totally rigged system, I’ve been saying that for a long time. You can’t review 650,000 new e-mails in 8 days, you can’t do it, folks. Hillary Clinton is guilty, she knows it,

the FBI knows it, the people know it and now is up to the American people to deliver justice at the ballot box on November 8.”

 

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-- © Copyright Euronews 2016-11-07

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Edited November 7, 2016 by JLCrab

[dunroaming]

Yes it seems that Trump really has nothing left.  Then again he hadn't got much to start with.  Still his devoted fans still love him and will support him blindly into the abyss! 

[Boon Mee]

So the FIX isn't in, huh? 

 

Edited November 7, 2016 by Boon Mee
Whoever says God no longer performs miracles has just been proven wrong. You see it took the FBI almost a year to go through the first 55,000 pages of emails. But by some miracle the FBI went through 650,000 emails in NINE DAYS. Holy cow they are good!

[dunroaming]

7 minutes ago, Boon Mee said:

So the FIX isn't in, huh? 

 

 

It's called technology but it is expensive.  Easily done with a ticking clock.

[Boon Mee]

1 minute ago, dunroaming said:

 

It's called technology but it is expensive.  Easily done with a ticking clock.

I gotta bridge on Brooklyn for sale as well...

[dunroaming]

Keep plugging away Boon Mee.  Your boy need all the support he can muster now!

[Steely Dan]

Just read DNCLEAK and DNCLEAK2 on twitter. This is the cut to the chase stuff which should have been released far earlier, though I heard the delay was to give Clinton the chance to drop out on her own accord.


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[Chicog]

It's amazing just how much of the Facebook/Twitter crap people swallow.

Especially as they are too stupid to realise what it's for....

 

 

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“This is the news of the millennium!” said the story on WorldPoliticus.com. Citing unnamed FBI sources, it claimed Hillary Clinton will be indicted in 2017 for crimes related to her email scandal.

“Your Prayers Have Been Answered,” declared the headline.

For Trump supporters, that certainly seemed to be the case. They helped the baseless story generate over 140,000 shares, reactions, and comments on Facebook.

Meanwhile, roughly 6,000 miles away in a small town in the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, a young man watched as money began trickling into his Google AdSense account.

Over the past year, the Macedonian town of Veles (population 45,000) has experienced a digital gold rush as locals launched at least 140 US politics websites. These sites have American-sounding domain names such as WorldPoliticus.com, TrumpVision365.com, USConservativeToday.com, DonaldTrumpNews.co, and USADailyPolitics.com. They almost all publish aggressively pro-Trump content aimed at conservatives and Trump supporters in the US.

The young Macedonians who run these sites say they don’t care about Donald Trump. They are responding to straightforward economic incentives: As Facebook regularly reveals in earnings reports, a US Facebook user is worth about four times a user outside the US. The fraction-of-a-penny-per-click of US display advertising — a declining market for American publishers — goes a long way in Veles. Several teens and young men who run these sites told BuzzFeed News that they learned the best way to generate traffic is to get their politics stories to spread on Facebook — and the best way to generate shares on Facebook is to publish sensationalist and often false content that caters to Trump supporters.

 

 

Boon Mee must have earned them a fortune.

 

 

[JHolmesJr]

Stevie Wnder for Clinton.....sounds about right. 

[dunroaming]

People search out anything that they think supports their argument.  We all do it.  However some of us choose articles that have some bearing on the truth whilst others clutch at any straws they can

[SaintLouisBlues]

4 minutes ago, dunroaming said:

People search out anything that they think supports their argument.  We all do it.  However some of us choose articles that have some bearing on the truth whilst others clutch at any straws they can

Known as "confirmation bias", also known as "People only see what they want to see"

[maoro2013]

But Hillary needs pop stars?

 

I noted that there was a mention, admittedly in another thread, about the donations to DT and that he didn't spend any of his own  money on the campaign, which was a fraction of HC's. Where do you think HC's funds came from?

[dunroaming]

Not so much funding as investment

[performance]

Clinton is denounced the world over and not regarded in any way.  She gave head to get in old Bill another degenerate waste of space. Clinton is a criminal who with help from a black Kenyan got a life line. She is a threat to national security and untrustworthy. Go home and send messages to wiki you idiot..Watch some porn with Bill and leave the country to someone with a working brain.

[performance]

ALL FBI heads must be fired for misconduct and immediately