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Washington, Aug 26 : More than half of the likely voters, or 53 per cent, said they had "strongly unfavourable" views of Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump, while 46 per cent said the same about his Democratic rival Hillary Clinton, according to a national poll released on Thursday. Clinton now holds 10-point lead over Trump, 51 per cent to 41 per cent, among likely voters in a two-way race, the Quinnipiac University poll finds, Xinhua reported.
Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton on Thursday revealed more details in her regulatory relief plan for credit unions and other community institutions, including making clear when they are exempt from regulation and cutting down on regulatory "creep." "While Wall Street's reckless risk-taking created a global financial crisis, community banks and credit unions were working to help ordinary Americans and Main Street get ahead," she said.
The tone of the US presidential campaign has darkened, with Hillary Clinton skewering Donald Trump as a man who flirts with racism and paranoid ideas, while he in turn labelled her a racist whose family foundation was a "criminal enterprise". Mr Trump says Mrs Clinton views minorities only as a source of votes, Mrs Clinton says Mr Trump has "long history of discrimination" Speaking at a campaign event in Reno, Nevada, Mrs Clinton employed unusually tough language as she detailed a history of what she said were the Republican real estate mogul's discriminatory actions.
NAFCU's Dan Berger reiterated the heavy toll regulatory burden takes on credit unions and their 104 million members in letters Thursday to presidential nominees Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump, and he noted the association's willingness to work with both parties in this regard. Berger, NAFCU's president and CEO, thanked Clinton for her support in wanting to cut regulatory red tape for credit unions, as noted in her recently released platform for small business and fact sheet for supporting credit unions .
More than 20 years before he took over Trump's presidential campaign, media executive Stephen K. Bannon was the investment banker hired to rescue Fort Worth philanthropist Ed Bass's Biosphere 2 environmental research project. It was Bannon who ousted the original residents of the 3-acre Arizona laboratory as dysfunctional and reshaped the project from - his words - a "space colonization" test to what is now a University of Arizona science program.
Hillary Clinton issued a blistering takedown of Donald Trump Thursday, accusing him of racism and arguing that "fringe" elements have taken over the Republican Party. "From the start, Donald Trump has built his campaign on prejudice and paranoia," Clinton said at a campaign rally here.
Heather Bresch, the Mylan CEO under fire for skyrocketing EpiPen costs, believes Americans should redirect their anger toward a "broken" health care system. Mylan was forced to respond to the national outrage over a more than 400% increase in price for the lifesaving allergy treatment by pledging on Thursday to make it more affordable.
"African-American citizens and Latino citizens will have the time of their life" under a Trump presidency, according to none other than Donald Trump. Speaking Thursday afternoon in Manchester, N.H., the Republican nominee continued his supposed "outreach" to minority communities by claiming black and Latino Americans will have cause for celebration as he'll "create jobs like you've never seen."
The start of a central bankers' meeting in the mountains of Wyoming, which could clarify the path of U.S. interest rate policy, kept most investors from making big bets on Thursday. Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen will deliver the keynote speech on Friday, when she may struggle to convince financial markets she can steer a divided U.S. central bank to raise interest rates at least once in 2016 after it started the year with four hikes on its radar.
Donald Trump confronted head-on allegations that he is racist on Thursday, defending his hard-line approach to immigration while trying to make the case to minority voters that Democrats have abandoned them. His poll numbers slipping behind Hillary Clinton's with less than three months until Election Day, Trump tried to get ahead of the Democratic nominee, who addressed a rally in Reno, Nevada minutes later, warning that the Republican Party is being taken over by "a radical fringe," motivated by "prejudice and paranoia."
Looking to preempt a comprehensive attack on his character by Hillary Clinton, Donald Trump on Thursday accused his November opponent of "trying to smear" him and decrying his supporters as "being racist." In an hour-long tirade at a Manchester, N.H., hotel the GOP nominee defended himself against Clinton's accusations of "mainstreaming" hate and claimed that many of his most controversial policies were not racist.
A poll from Quinnipiac University released on Thursday gave Hillary Clinton a massive advantage over her Republican counterpart, Donald Trump, just 75 days before November's election. The poll put Clinton, the Democratic presidential nominee, at 51% and Trump, the Republican nominee, at 41% in a head-to-head matchup.
Donald Trump slammed Hillary Clinton on Thursday arguing that her deletion of tens of thousands of emails is "Watergate all over again." During a campaign rally Manchester, New Hampshire, "The FBI found thousands of work-related emails she failed to turn over, including the new discovery this week of 15,000 more work-related emails she did not disclose.
Hillary Clinton raised over $19 million during a three-day, nine fundraiser swing through California this week, putting the former secretary of state on pace to make August the largest fundraising month of her 2016 campaign. Clinton headlined a series of star-studded events in Southern and Northern California this week, hobnobbing with celebrities, Hall of Fame athletes and tech billionaires, all while filling her campaign's coffers with needed cash for the final months of her race against Donald Trump.
Republican nominee Donald Trump is linking his "movement to take back the country" to Britain's surprising vote to leave the European Union. The architect of the withdrawal campaign, known as Brexit, joined the GOP presidential nominee on stage during a rally late Wednesday in Jackson, Mississippi.
Independent presidential candidate Evan McMullin gave a new interview about the state of the election in which he called Donald Trump a "fragile" candidate who's inconsolable over his equally "fragile" presidential campaign. The #NeverTrump candidate addressed the Trump's recent campaign shake-ups and his apparent immigration flip-flopping as part of a wide-range discussion with Business Insider .
When I wrote the headline "Hillary's heel," I was thinking of Achilles, not Bill, though the former president is usually within nipping range of his wife's pantsuit hem. Hillary Clinton's Achilles' heel is her very Clinton-ness.
Watch Interview With Kansas City Fed President Esther George on Mornings with Maria on Fox Business at 7:30 ET Just about a year after Democratic presidential nominee sent biotechnology stocks and exchange traded funds tumbling with rhetoric aimed at high drug prices, one would think that any healthcare company and its executives opting to raise prices on devices, pharmaceuticals and treatments by hundreds of a percent is just asking for trouble. Well, Mylan NV can now be a case study in bungling executive leadership after revealing steep price increases for its EpiPen used to treat patients with severe allergic reactions.
Hillary Clinton smashed a longtime glass ceiling when she became the first female presidential nominee for a major party. But most Americans still think her gender will influence this contest.
Former President Bill Clinton says he's proud of people who have donated to the Clinton Foundation and the work the organization has done, as he waded into a dispute that Republicans are hoping will damage his wife's presidential campaign. "We're trying to do good things," Bill Clinton said Wednesday.