New state and national polls suggest Trump's campaign is wobbling and other top stories.

• New state and national polls suggest Trump's campaign is wobbling

  

  Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump spoke about his campaign at a Daytona, Fla., event saying, "I would say right now it's the best in terms of being united than it's been since we began." (Reuters) A difficult week for Donald Trump has gotten tougher with the release of several new polls in swing states showing him trailing Hillary Clinton by wide margins. The surveys come hot on the heels of polls from CNN/ORC and Fox News showing that Clinton's got a wide national lead (plus-9..

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• Introducing the Donald Trump-Mike Pence divergence tracker

  

  Occasionally on the same stage. Often on a different page. (Mary Altaffer/AP) Whether or not he sets foot on stage with Hillary Clinton, Donald Trump is very likely to find himself engaged in some sort of debate this fall — with his running mate. It's not that Trump and vice-presidential nominee Mike Pence are publicly sparring. (Try to imagine Pence sparring. Go ahead. We don't have nearly enough imagination.) It's that, rather than embrace a joint message, they seem to be running two disti..

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• Donald Trump just lost his best friend

  

  Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump (Drew Angerer/Bloomberg News) Donald Trump and polls have had a long and unusually good relationship. Throughout the Republican primary, polls showed Trump at or near the top of the field. He dutifully cited them — and cited them — as evidence that he was #winning, and that everyone who second-guessed his unorthodox campaign style was, in a word, dumb. Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump found himself in the middle of a whole bunch o..

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• Many questions and few answers about how Melania Trump ...

  

  Newly published nude photographs of Melania Trump, the wife of Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, have raised questions about the story of her immigration to the United States and how the Slovenian-born former model gained her legal status here — questions that the Trump campaign is not answering. Melania Trump has said she came to the country in 1996, but the photos were taken in New York in 1995. She met Donald Trump in 1998 and they were married in 2005. So what do we know about..

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