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PORTSMOUTH, NH — Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump returns to New Hampshire for another event at the Toyota of Portsmouth dealership in Portsmouth on Oct. 14, 2016. The event starts at noon. The dealership is the same location that former U.S. Sen. Scott Brown hosted Trump as part of his pre-first-in-the-nation primary “No BS Backyard BBQ” event earlier this year, to about 1,000 people. At that time, Brown was being floated as a possible VP pick and Trump joked that he looked like he walked out of central casting.
Trump’s trip back to New Hampshire – the third time in two weeks – is occurring after a rough week of unsubstantiated accusations of inappropriate sexual contact between the real estate mogul and women dating back 11 to 30 years. The GOP nominee has been fighting back against the media onslaught – calling the allegations lies – with at least two witnesses coming forward to challenge the accusations.
At the same time, polls in New Hampshire – a state that has voted for the Democrat’s presidential nominee in five of the last six cycles – appear to be tightening. The RealClearPolitics.com average currently gives Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton at 3.6 percent spread lead, within the margin of error of most polls, despite all the bad press for Trump. Clinton had a 15-point lead in one poll in late July and had double or triple margin of error leads in nearly every poll in August and September.
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The Clinton campaign has been bringing in any number of surrogates to promote her effort in New Hampshire while the campaign has been dogged with its onslaught of emails released by WikiLeaks revealing inappropriate comments about Latinos and Catholics as well as plans to deal with any fallout from the deleted email scandal.
This weekend, Delaware Gov. Jack Markell, U.S. Rep., Niki Tsongas, and NARAL President Ilyse Hogue, will be in the state campaigning for Clinton.
Former President Bill Clinton – whose final years as president were mired with his own in appropriate sexual allegations including inappropriate relations with an intern, sexual abuse, and at least one rape allegation from the 1970s, as well as a harassment claim that led to an impeachment vote – will be in the state on Monday campaigning in Keene and Hanover.
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Meanwhile, Libertarian presidential nominee Gary Johnson, who was polling as high as 14 and 15 percent in polling last month in New Hampshire, has slipped back down to between 5 and 11 percent in the month of October. He currently has an RCP average of around 8 percent.
Johnson has released a number of videos hoping to shave away votes from the two major party presidential candidates who have also been rated as some of the most unpopular politicians ever to run for office. The most recent video concerned foreign policy.
“We need a chess player in the White House, and we need policies guided by principle, not politics," he said. “Is Iraq better off today than it was before we invaded? Is Libya more stable or ‘safer’ since we helped topple its government? 15 years later, is Afghanistan any more democratic or safer than it was before we made it the subject in a nation-building experiment? And in Syria today, are our bombs actually stopping a massive human tragedy?"
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