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Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton will both be seeking votes in the Midwest on Monday, Trump in Michigan and Clinton in Ohio. And Republican vice presidential candidate Mike Pence returns to the Sunshine State.
On Sunday, the 2016 presidential campaign wrapped up the next to last weekend of campaigning just as it started Friday, with the FBI's renewed email investigation on center stage.
In Wilton Manors, Florida, Clinton insisted she would not be "knocked off course" by the email resumption of the controversy. "I'm not stopping now; we're just getting warmed up," she said.
But Democrats were clearly focused on the email probe. Clinton campaign chief John Podesta ripped FBI director James Comey, saying the bureau should have waited until the probe had produced more material revelations before making the Investigation public. And Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid went as far as to say Comey himself may have violated federal law. But Reid, who is retiring from the Senate, came under criticism from congressional Republicans for his criticism of Comey.
Concluding his western swing, GOP nominee Donald Trump again raised the specter of vulnerable and flawed elections system. This time, in Greeley, Colo., he zeroed in on Colorado's vote-by-mail system. He warned Colorado voters to go to the polls in person rather than relying on mailed ballots he said could be miscounted.
Trump also sought to cash in Clinton controversy, noting the role played by Anthony Weiner, the estranged husband of Clinton confidant Huma Abedin, in sparking the new email investigation.
“We never thought we were going to say ‘thank you’ to Anthony Weiner,” he said at a rally in Las Vegas.
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Where are Clinton, Trump today?
Trump arrives in the Midwest today. Rallies are planned in Grand Rapids and Warren, Mich.
Clinton is in Ohio, with events in Cincinnati and Kent.
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Also stumping …
Trump running mate Mike Pence will be cutting through Central Florida with campaign stops in Cocoa, Maitland and Clearwater.
After a series of star-studded events, the headliners on Clinton’s behalf today will be running mate Tim Kaine in North Carolina and his wife, Anne Holton, in Nebraska.
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Latest poll results
A poll by two Florida Fox TV stations says Clinton and Trump are in a dead heat in the Sunshine State. The Right Side Broadcasting Network poll put Clinton at 46.6 percent and Trump 46.3 percent of likely voters.
An ABC/Washington Post tracking poll released Sunday suggests as many as 30 percent of likely voters say the revelation of a new FBI probe into Hillary Clinton emails will make them less likely to vote for the Democratic nominee. The poll also found that Clinton leads Trump by just a single percentage point, 46 to 45 percent, in a four-way White House race with Libertarian Gary Johnson and Green Party candidate Jill Stein.
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