Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump's campaign has raised in August USD 90 million - of which the real estate tycoon himself contributed more than half, but still remains short of USD 140 million raised by his Democratic rival Hillary Clinton's campaign.
In a televised forum that served as a warm-up for the first presidential debate on September 26 he cited Mr Putin's 82 per cent approval rating as proof of his strength, applauded his "great control" over his country and exuded pride at being praised by him. Trump was in Greenville on Tuesday (and will be in Asheville on Monday), and on Thursday afternoon, Clinton attended a rally at Johnson C. Smith University, a historically black university in Charlotte, for what its president Dr. Ronald L. Carter called a "high level job interview". Mr Trump said. He acknowledged that Russian Federation has "a very different system, ..." Only 37% of North Carolina voters said they have a favorable opinion of Clinton, while a majority - 55% - said they have an unfavorable opinion.
Clinton's tarmac address to reporters marked the first podium press conference in nine months for the candidate, who broke a long media drought by speaking to journalists at length on her campaign plane this week.
Now, like Trump, she did not divulge any specifics.
She said women service members should not fear sexual assault simply for serving alongside men - who she said Trump had insulted by suggesting they could not control themselves around female troops. In some cases, as with his plans to defeat the Islamic State group, Trump says they're purposefully shrouded in secrecy. "The Iraq War began in March 2003, more than a year before this story ran, thus nullifying Trump's timeline".
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In a four-way race, the latest Quinnipiac University Poll shows the NY real estate mogul with a 4-point lead over the former secretary of state. Even some Clinton supporters will admit that she has mishandled - and often completely avoided - questions about her email and her family's charitable foundation, fueling scrutiny of both. Stuart Stevens, a vocal Trump critic and senior strategist to 2012 Republican nominee Mitt Romney, tweeted: "In front of a weather map, smiling a lot might be a job requirement".
"He says his plan is still a secret, but the truth is he simply doesn't have one". "And I could see myself working that out".
Trump used the start of a speech about education at a charter school in Cleveland to push back at Democratic rival Hillary Clinton's statement that his position on Iraq is pretty much like her own: She voted for the 2003 war as a US senator from NY but has since disavowed the vote.
Moments earlier, Trump insisted in scripted remarks as he has repeatedly during his presidential campaign that he "was opposed to the war from the beginning" and said that he would have voted against invading Iraq had he been in Congress at the time.
