Trump, Clinton tension seeps into jokes at annual charity dinner

U.S. presidential campaign tensions seeped into a high-profile charity dinner on Thursday as Donald Trump joked about sending Hillary Clinton to prison and she alluded to Trump’s statements about women by estimating how he might rate the Statue of Liberty's attractiveness a four, maybe a five.

The candidates shared the stage at a formal dinner in New York City named for the state's former governor, Alfred E. Smith, less than 24 hours after finishing their third and final presidential debate in Las Vegas on Wednesday.

The annual event, which raises money for needy children, typically offers presidential hopefuls a respite from the tension of the campaign trail. But Trump and Clinton opted to instead trade sharpened barbs that reflected the acrimony of the 2016 White House campaign.

Trump spoke first and set the room on edge with bitter jabs at his rival, with his label of Clinton as “corrupt” drawing boos.

"With all of the heated back and forth between my opponent and me at the debate last night, we have proven that we can actually be civil to each other," Trump said. "In fact just before taking the dais, Hillary accidentally bumped into me and she very civilly said, 'Pardon me.'"

"And I very politely replied, 'Let me talk to you about that after I get into office,'" said Trump, a Republican whose supporters chant "lock her up" at rallies.

Clinton, whose remarks elicited both polite applause and derision, riffed off Trump's derogatory remarks about women's appearances, such as joking in a 2002 radio interview that they become less attractive after age 35.

"Donald looks at the Statue of Liberty and sees a four, maybe a five if she loses the torch and tablet and changes her hair," Clinton said of the New York City landmark.

"Come to think of it, you know what would be a good number for a woman? 45," Clinton said. The president elected on Nov. 8 will be the 45th in U.S. history.

Trump and Clinton sat just a seat apart on the dais, separated by Cardinal Timothy Dolan, the archbishop of New York. At the event’s conclusion, they shook hands – a gesture they avoided at Wednesday’s debate.

But the tone of both candidates’ remarks was a departure from the past, when political figures and presidential candidates have stuck to a largely self-deprecating and good-natured brand of humor.

At one point at the event, which raised $6 million for Catholic charities supporting children, Trump said Clinton was “pretending not to hate Catholics.”

Trump was referring to the apparently hacked personal emails of Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta, published by Wikileaks, which show Clinton staffers criticizing high-profile figures for embracing Catholicism as the most “politically acceptable” of socially conservative religions.

Alfred Smith IV, the evening's host, perhaps best reflected the tension in the room, and the campaign, in his introductory remarks: "This has been a campaign for the history books," he said. "It has also been a campaign for the psychiatry books."

Source: Reuters

Clinton says she supports investigating Russia for war crimes in Syria

Democratic candidate for the White House Hillary Clinton on Sunday said she supported investigating Russia and the regime in Damascus for committing war crimes in Syria.

Meanwhile her Republican rival Donald Trump claimed Moscow was "killing" the Islamic State (IS) in that country, during the second televised debate between the pair.

Source: EFE

Trump, Clinton trade barbs at second presidential debate

The US presidential candidates traded heated words during the second televised debate on Sunday between the pair, held in St. Louis, Missouri.

Republican Donald Trump claimed his rival, Democrat Hillary Clinton, should be in prison over the use of her private email when she was serving as secretary of state, while Clinton claimed the tycoon's derogatory comments about women made him unfit to serve as president.

Trump was on the defense after facing a wave of criticism over the release of a 2005 videotape on Friday, on which he could be heard making lewd and sexist comments about women.

Several Republican senators condemned him while other party members withdrew their support over the offensive comments, which Trump dismissed as "locker room talk".

He said he had apologized for his comments and had "tremendous respect" for women, before pivoting to attack Clinton's husband, former US president Bill Clinton, over allegations of sexual misconduct.

Clinton took the opportunity to stress that Trump's lewd comments about women represented him accurately and questioned his fitness to serve as president.

Trump retaliated by attacking his opponent over her use of private email, eliciting cheers from the audience when he claimed she should be in prison over the scandal.

The pair clashed on issues including immigration, with Clinton saying Trump's proposal to ban Muslims entering the US went against the country's founding on religious freedom and played into the hands of terrorist organizations.

"What Donald Trump says about Muslims is used to recruit fighters because they want to create a war between us," she said.

The former Secretary of State also criticized Russia's involvement in the humanitarian crisis in Syria, saying she would support investigating the Kremlin over committing war crimes in Syria.

Clinton claimed Russian President Vladimir Putin's regime was working to influence the outcome of the US election in favor of Trump, who denied working with Moscow but said he would support the two countries joining forces to defeat the Islamic State terror group.

Trump also came under fire over his refusal to release his tax returns and he admitted he had declared a $916 million loss in 1995 to avoid paying federal income taxes.

Despite trading several insults, the pair ended the debate civilly by shaking hands, with Clinton praising Trump's children and her opponent admitting he respected her resilience.

The third and final televised debate will take place on Oct. 19 in Las Vegas, Nevada.

Source: EFE

Trump, Clinton haunt U.S. Halloween

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A Styrofoam model of a hot air-blowing Donald Trump and another of a toothy Hillary Clinton riding the Democratic Party's donkey mascot are among the skeletons and zombies in a Halloween display that has become an attraction and is stopping traffic in a Connecticut town.

With a little more than a month to go before the U.S. elections on Nov. 8, history professor Matt Warshauer of West Hartford is using his annual Halloween extravaganza to make a political statement.

Warshauer built an 8-foot-high (2.4-meter-high) cardboard version of Republican presidential candidate Trump's proposed U.S.-Mexican border wall, complete with models of armed guards, in front of his house.

"It's a crazy presidential election where it seems politics are out of control," said Warshauer, who teaches at Central Connecticut State University. "I am making a statement about both parties, the Republican and the Democratic party, but my primary concern is Donald Trump as a president."

Warshauer erected the display on Saturday but said on Tuesday that he had been planning it for months.

One of the skeletons holds a sign saying, "We were all immigrants," while another reads, "We are not criminals," a reference to Trump's proposals to curb illegal immigration.

U.S. presidential campaigns have often accented the activities leading up to and on Halloween on Oct. 31, with sales of rubber masks of the candidates or holiday parades featuring election-themed floats. And this year is no exception.

Warshauer, who has built Halloween displays for more than a decade, includes an annual political message, not just for the presidential contests that fall every four years.

Last year, a model of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, thatched huts and a replica of a downed helicopter marked the 50th anniversary of the Vietnam War. Earlier exhibits included one with a cardboard coliseum and Roman soldiers and another with a Civil War theme.

"I hope people take it in the spirit of Halloween, that I am having a little fun and making a political statement," Warshauer said of this year's offering.

Source: Reuters

Trump doubles down on 'law-and-order' appeal in White House bid

Donald Trump on Thursday praised aggressive police tactics and condemned attacks on officers amid criticism of his plan to use "stop-and-frisk" tactics to reduce crime, in a speech following a second night of unrest that shook Charlotte, North Carolina.

The Republican presidential nominee said drugs were "a very, very big factor" in urban unrest and that those suffering the most from the violence were "law-abiding African-American residents who live in these communities."

"Crime and violence is an attack on the poor and will never be accepted in a Trump administration," Trump told an energy conference in Pittsburgh, as a room full of natural gas and coal industry executives listened in silence.

"The violence against our citizens, and our law enforcement, must be brought to an end," he added.

Trump has portrayed himself as the "law-and-order" candidate. Stop-and-frisk, in which police stop, question and search pedestrians for weapons or contraband, has drawn protests and successful legal challenges because it is seen as unfairly targeting minorities.

At the same time, Trump has recently reached out to African-American voters as the gap in many opinion polls has narrowed between him and his Democratic rival, Hillary Clinton, ahead of the Nov. 8 presidential election.

Clinton, who did not immediately respond to Trump's remarks on Thursday, has pushed for stricter gun controls to help rein in gun violence and called for the development of national guidelines on the use of force by police officers.

In Pittsburgh, Trump, a New York businessman, called for better training of police and more community engagement.

"If you’re not aware, drugs are a very, very big factor in what you’re watching on television at night," Trump said. "My administration will work with local communities and local officials to make the reduction of crime a top priority."

Trump campaign manager Kellyanne Conway said later in a statement that Trump’s comments were not referring “specifically” to the violence in Charlotte, but “addressing a major concern that authorities and moms across the country are raising with him, which is indiscriminate drug use and opiate addiction.”

The fatal police shooting of a black man sparked the protests in Charlotte, and a state of emergency was declared on Wednesday.

There have also been protests in Tulsa, Oklahoma, in recent days after a fatal police shooting of an unarmed black man who a video showed had his hands in clear view at the time. A white Tulsa officer was charged with first-degree manslaughter on Thursday in the shooting.

Police tactics and deadly encounters with African-Americans, many of them unarmed, have sparked protests and unrest across the country in recent years.

Clinton said on Wednesday that the deaths in Charlotte and Tulsa added two more names to the list of African-American victims of police killings. “It’s unbearable, and it needs to become intolerable,” she said.

'THEY'LL TAKE THE GUN AWAY'

Trump was at an African-American church in Cleveland on Wednesday when he praised stop-and-frisk, which had triggered protests and court rulings that it was unconstitutional or required outside monitoring in cities like New York, Chicago and Newark, New Jersey.

Before going to Pittsburgh, Trump was asked on Fox News' "Fox and Friends" program to define the tactic. He said: "If they see a person possibly with a gun or they think may have a gun, they will see the person and they'll look and they'll take the gun away."

"They'll stop, they'll frisk, and they'll take the gun away. And they won't have anything to shoot with," he said.

In Washington, White House spokesman John Earnest pointed to what he said was a contradiction in Trump's remarks.

"It does raise questions that a politician would be so dogmatic about protecting Second Amendment rights (to bear arms) yet rather cavalier about protecting the constitutional prohibition against illegal search and seizure," he told a news briefing.

While Trump did not mention stop-and-frisk by name in Pittsburgh, he used the speech to repeat his praise for the policing tactics fostered by former New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani, now a major Trump supporter, who promoted the practice. Trump again credited policing under the Republican mayor with reducing crime in the candidate's hometown.

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio rejected that argument on Thursday, warning Trump against embracing a tactic that would worsen relations between police and the minority community.

De Blasio attributed the sharp drop in crime to another strategy adopted by Bill Bratton, the city's longtime police commissioner, who retired less than a week ago.

Bratton championed the "broken windows" policing strategy that emphasizes pursuit of crimes no matter how minor. In his resignation letter, he attributed the decline in crime in New York, the nation's most populous city with 8.5 million people, to additional officers and an emphasis on building bonds within neighborhoods.

De Blasio, who supports Clinton, said in an interview with CNN that Trump "should really be careful because if we reinstitute stop-and-frisk all over this country, you would see a lot more tension between police and community."

Source: Reuters

Obama hits campaign trail for Clinton

U.S. President Barack Obama on Tuesday hit the campaign trail on behalf of Democratic presidential nominee - and his former secretary of state - Hillary Clinton, going on to harshly criticize her Republican rival, Donald Trump.

"I could not be prouder of the leader we have nominated to take my place. So even though I've run my last campaign, I'm going to work as hard as I can this fall to elect Hillary Clinton as our next president," said Obama in a speech before the Philadelphia Museum of Art.

Obama showed up at a campaign rally almost like a teen pop star to shouts of "I love you" from attendees, although Clinton was not on hand, given that she is still recovering from a fainting spell last Sunday caused by pneumonia and becoming overheated at a 9/11 memorial ceremony.

"I am really into electing Hillary Clinton. This is not me going through the motions here," Obama said at the rally. "Sometimes folks are kind of surprised by that because they remember, man, you guys had a tough (presidential primaries) fight eight years ago. Every time I thought I was ahead, it was like climbing up the ... steps" in the movie "Rocky."

He also said that the measures he had taken during his administration are having results, but "everybody" knew that change was not going to come overnight and could not be accomplished in just one presidency, and so now he is working to elect Clinton to carry on his work.

"We have one candidate who ... has more qualifications than pretty much anyone who has ever run for this job," he said, going on to contrast the vision of a "steady and true" Clinton presidency with Trump, who he said "isn't fit in any way, shape or form to represent this country abroad and be its commander in chief."

"I keep on reading ... that Trump's got support from working folks. Really? This is the guy you want to be championing working people? The guy who spent 70 years on this earth showing no concern for working people?" said the president.

"He wasn't going to let you on his golf course, He wasn't going to let you buy into his condo. And now he wants to be your champion?" he asked.

Voter surveys continue to show Clinton is leading Trump in Pennsylvania, considered to be a crucial state in the November election and which in the last six presidential contests has gone for the Democrats.

Trump was also scheduled to campaign in Pennsylvania on Tuesday, hoping to garner votes from those who are discontented with the country's industrial reconversion and manufacturing crisis, which has economically displaced many middle class families.

The president said that Trump's brand of conservatism is very different from that of President Ronald Reagan. "(Reagan) called America a shining city on a hill. Donald Trump calls it a divided crime scene," he remarked, adding that the mogul's campaign is "not offering serious solutions. They're just fanning resentment and blame and anger and hate. And that is not the America we know."

He also noted that Trump has repeatedly praised Russian President Vladimir Putin and is "saying (Putin is) a strong leader because he invades smaller countries, jails his opponents, controls the press, and drives his economy into a long recession."

On the other hand, he said he saw firsthand how Clinton - as secretary of state - lobbied in favor of the mission to kill Osama Bin Laden, opened diplomatic channels and promoted democracy, worked tirelessly and flew all over the world in pursuit of U.S. foreign policy goals.

Source: EFE

Trump says health is an 'issue' after Clinton's pneumonia disclosure

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump said on Monday that health is an issue in the election campaign after his Democratic rival, Hillary Clinton, revealed she had pneumonia, and he said he would soon release detailed health information.

"I just hope she gets well and gets back on the trail, and we'll be seeing her at the debate," Trump said in a phone interview with Fox News.

Asked if the health of the candidates was an issue, Trump said: "I think it's an issue. In fact ... this last week I took a physical and .... when the numbers come in I'll be releasing very, very specific numbers."

Clinton's bout of pneumonia, kept secret until she nearly collapsed on Sunday, has raised uncertainty about her health going into the final weeks of presidential campaigning.

The Clinton campaign finally disclosed on Sunday that the 68-year-old Democratic presidential nominee had been diagnosed with pneumonia on Friday after she complained of allergies and was seen coughing repeatedly in recent days.

The disclosure was made public hours after her campaign said she had become "overheated" to explain why, knees buckling and unsteady, she was rushed from a ceremony marking the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks in New York to her daughter Chelsea's apartment.

Trump, 70, has been suggesting for weeks that Clinton lacks the energy needed to be president.

During the Republican primary campaign, Trump dispatched rival Jeb Bush by deriding him as a "low energy" candidate. His efforts to raise questions about Clinton's stamina mirror that strategy.

The pneumonia incident brought up some familiar concerns about Clinton's penchant for secrecy which has fueled a debate about her use of a private email server while she was President Barack Obama's secretary of state from 2009 to 2013.

"You’ve got Donald Trump promoting health conspiracy theories to begin with, so any time something even lends an air of credence to that conspiracy, it needs to be debunked right away,” Democratic strategist Bud Jackson said.

Clinton's campaign canceled a two-day trip by the former first lady to California which was scheduled to begin Monday morning.

Democratic donor and fundraiser Bill Bartmann fielded calls from about half a dozen Democrats worried about how Clinton's health episode would look. The callers, he said, decided to wait and see how everything plays out.

The health problem was the latest blow for Clinton at a time when Trump has erased most of her lead in national opinion polls and is competitive again in many battleground states where the Nov. 8 election is likely to be decided.

Her dismissal of half of Trump's supporters as a "basket of deplorables" of racist, homophobic people on Friday triggered a firestorm of criticism and prompted her to roll back the comment.

The issue also put pressure on both Clinton and Trump, the Republican presidential nominee, to reassure American voters about their health, given the rigors of the presidential campaign, in which the food is often unhealthy, sleep is elusive and the packed schedule and extensive travel is stressful.

"The short-term turbulence will be more about the handling of this than the substance, though I'm sure both candidates will be pressed for greater disclosure of health records," said David Axelrod, a former adviser to Obama.

Trump told CNBC on Monday he would probably release information about his own health this week.

TRUMP'S HEALTH

Trump is expected to discuss his own health regimen in an interview to air on Thursday with celebrity physician Dr. Mehmet Oz.

Trump, a New York businessman, has made no secret of his affinity for fast food, sometimes sharing photos of himself on his campaign jet or at Trump Tower enjoying fried chicken, hamburgers and a taco bowl.

But he has made less information available about his health than Clinton has. Last December, he released a statement from his doctor, Harold Bornstein, that described him in excellent health with "extraordinary" strength and stamina.

The statement did not mention what medicine Trump might be taking or other details typically included in such disclosures. It was dramatically different from the hundreds of pages of medical records released by Republican nominee John McCain in 2008 to reassure Americans about his bouts of skin cancer.

“If elected, Mr. Trump, I can state unequivocally, will be the healthiest individual ever elected to the presidency,” Bornstein wrote. The Manhattan physician said in August he wrote the letter in five minutes as a Trump limo waited to pick it up.

Clinton released a two-page letter outlining her medical condition in July 2015 that sought to reassure Americans about her health after she fell and suffered a concussion at home in 2012 near the end of her tenure at the State Department.

PNEUMONIA RECOVERIES CAN VARY

Dr. Amesh Adalja, an infectious disease expert and senior associate at the UPMC Center for Health Security in Pittsburgh who is not treating Clinton, said recovery from pneumonia can vary from about a week to longer, depending on the severity.

"Some patients have very little difficulties with activities of daily living and are only mildly hampered by it while others may require hospitalization and have to reduce their activities," he said, adding that pneumonia was the 8th leading cause of death in the United States.

Clinton's campaign is likely to be pressed on why she did not make her pneumonia diagnosis public until late Sunday afternoon despite receiving it two days earlier.

"I think it's exceedingly important that Hillary Clinton be transparent about what’s going on," said presidential historian Douglas Brinkley. "If she gets a report of pneumonia on Friday, they should try to tell the public in real time. The danger for a candidate is if they seem to be hiding their health history."

Source: Reuters

FBI descobre mais 15 mil documentos de Hillary Clinton

A  Polícia Federal dos Estados Unidos (FBI, sigla em inglês) descobriu quase 15 mil documentos não revelados vinculados ao escândalo dos e-mails da candidata democrata à presidência do país, Hillary Clinton, informaram nesta segunda-feira veículos de imprensa americanos.

Os documentos foram encontrados durante a investigação do FBI sobre o uso de um servidor de e-mail privado por Hillary quando ela ocupava o cargo de secretária de Estado, entre os anos de 2009 e 2013.

O número representa quase 50% dos 30 mil documentos relacionados com o assunto que os advogados de Hillary entregaram ao Departamento de Estado em 2014.

O próprio Departamento de Estado se comprometeu a publicar os documentos e assegurou hoje ao juiz federal James E. Boasberg que o órgão está "dando prioridade" à revisão das novas mensagens.

No entanto, ainda não se sabe se esses e-mails serão publicados antes das eleições, que acontecem no dia 8 de novembro, na qual a também ex-primeira-dama enfrentará seu rival republicano, Donald Trump, para chegar à presidência do país.

A polêmica pelos e-mails teve início em 2015, quando os veículos de imprensa americanos revelaram que, durante seus quatro anos no Departamento de Estado, Hillary usou durante o tempo todo uma conta particular para suas comunicações, com um servidor privado.

Hillary reconheceu então que teria sido "mais inteligente" usar uma conta oficial e entregou 55 mil páginas de e-mails de seu período como chefe do Departamento de Estado para que fossem divulgados, mas o caso gerou dúvidas sobre se Hillary tratou de maneira indevida informações sigilosas do governo ao usar sua conta pessoal.

O Departamento de Estado identificou cerca de 2.100 e-mails do servidor de Hillary com informação confidencial, mas assegurou que muitos deles não eram considerados classificados no momento de seu envio, mas foram rotulados como tal durante a revisão atual dos e-mails.

Além disso, o tema dos e-mails acentuou as acusações por parte da bancada republicana no Congresso sobre a má gestão da ex-secretária de Estado em relação ao ataque contra o consulado americano em Benghazi, na Líbia, em 2012, no qual morreram o então embaixador Chris Stevens e outros três funcionários do governo.

Hillary se submeteu há alguns meses a um comparecimento perante os legisladores que durou mais de 11 horas para explicar o ocorrido naquele ataque e, no início de julho, foi tornado público o relatório final dos congressistas sobre o atentado, no qual não foram encontradas provas contra a candidata democrata.

Além disso, o FBI recomendou em julho ao Departamento de Justiça que não indiciasse a candidata presidencial após finalizar suas investigações do caso dos e-mails, por isso a procuradora-geral, Loretta Lynch, seguiu suas diretrizes.

Fonte: EFE

Wikileaks diz ter mais de mil e-mails de Hillary Clinton

O portal Wikileaks garantiu ter mais de mil e-mails da virtual candidata democrata à Casa Branca, Hillary Clinton, e disse ter publicado informações sobre a Guerra do Iraque recebidas e enviadas pela então secretária de Estado (2009-2013).

Os novos e-mails estão em uma seção intitulada "O arquivo de e-mails de Hillary Clinton", que foi aberta em março no site da organização Wikileaks, criada por Julian Assange.

O portal publicou em 16 de março uma base de dados com 30.322 e-mails enviados e recebidos pelo servidor privado de mensagem que Hillary usou quando liderava a diplomacia americana e que está sendo investigado pelo Departamento de Justiça e o FBI.

Em mensagem em seu perfil do Twitter, o Wikileaks afirmou na segunda-feira ter publicado 1.258 e-mails sobre a Guerra do Iraque.

Entre os e-mails divulgados figura, por exemplo, um enviado por Huma Abedin, uma das pessoas mais próximas à ex-secretária de Estado, no qual informa a Hillary que o vice-presidente, Joe Biden, tinha chegado ao Iraque em 30 de agosto de 2010 para se reunir com líderes políticos do país.

A polêmica pelos e-mails começou em 2015, quando os veículos de imprensa americanos revelaram que, durante seus quatro anos no Departamento de Estado, Hillary usou o tempo todo uma conta pessoal para suas comunicações, com um servidor privado.

Hillary reconheceu então que teria sido "mais inteligente" usar uma conta oficial e entregou 55 mil páginas de e-mails ao Departamento de Estado para sua publicação, mas o caso gerou dúvidas porque poderia ter passado informações do governo ao usar sua conta pessoal.

O Wikileaks obteve os e-mails divulgados agora da base de dados do Departamento de Estado, que foi publicando de maneira periódica as comunicações da ex-primeira-dama durante a campanha das primárias.

Fonte: EFE

Hillary e Trump vencem primárias em Nova York

A ex-secretária de Estado Hillary Clinton e o magnata Donald Trump ganharam nesta terça-feira as primárias presidenciais do estado de Nova York, segundo projeções das redes de televisão dos EUA.

A democrata Hillary Clinton obtinha 58,4% dos votos, contra 41,6% para o senador Bernie Sanders, após a apuração de 72% das urnas, segundo CNN, Fox News e NBC.

Trump recebia 60% dos votos, contra 25,1% para o governador de Ohio, John Kasich, e 14,9% para o senador do Texas Ted Cruz, também de acordo com CNN, Fox News e MSNBC.

Hillary disse que sua vitória foi algo "pessoal". "Os nova-iorquinos sempre tiveram meu apoio e sempre tratei de obter o apoio deles".

Em discurso na sede de sua campanha no Brooklyn, a ex-primeira-dama afirmou que "a vitória está à vista", em referência à indicação democrata à Casa Branca.

Oriundo do Brooklyn, Bernie Sanders precisava de um bom resultado em Nova York para se manter vivo na disputa.

Trump comemorou a vitória afirmando que "não falta muita coisa baseado no que estou vendo na televisão". "O senador Cruz está matematicamente eliminado".

Antes das primárias de Nova York, Trump contava com algo menos de 750 delegados, cerca de 200 a mais que Cruz.

Nova York é o estado que mais delegados concede após a Califórnia, que terá primárias em junho. Estavam em jogo nesta terça-feira 291 delegados democratas e 95 republicanos.

No total, 5,8 milhões de democratas e 2,7 milhões de republicanos estavam inscritos para votar nestas primárias "fechadas" para os independentes.

"Votei em Hillary Clinton porque é a mais qualificada. Gosto de Bernie Sanders, adoro sua energia e sua paixão, e algumas de suas ideias, mas não estou certo de que possa enfrentar nossa realidade política", informou Carlos Ríos, encarregado de recursos humanos, ao sair de um centro de votação em Chelsea, Manhattan.

Ao contrário, David Fields, um afro-americano que trabalha em publicidade, votou no senador chamado de "socialista democrático".

"Precisamos de uma mudança. Gosto do discurso dele, é sincero", disse à AFP.

Durante a votação, o prefeito de Nova York, Bill de Blasio, informou sobre "numerosos erros" nas listas eleitorais no Brooklyn.

Em nível nacional, Hillary está praticamente empatada com Sanders, com 50% contra 48% de intenções de voto, de acordo com uma nova pesquisa.

Mas devido ao sistema eleitoral americano de primárias por estado, Clinton tem uma vantagem sobre Sanders, com 1.790 delegados contra 1.113. São necessários 2.383 delegados para obter a nomeação na convenção democrata para as eleições presidenciais de novembro.

No Partido Republicano são necessários 1.237 delegados para garantir a indicação na convenção de julho.

Caso nenhum candidato obtenha a maioria de delegados requerida, a convenção ficará em aberto e não será obrigada a indicar Trump.

O polêmico multimilionário, que deixou a corrida à Casa Branca de cabeça para baixo com sua campanha agressiva, acusa seu partido de querer bloquear sua indicação e denuncia regras "deturpadas" na atribuição de delegados, que nem sempre corresponde ao voto dos eleitores.

No entanto, depois de sua clara derrota no Wisconsin, em 5 de abril, pelas mãos de Cruz, Trump moderou um pouco suas declarações polêmicas e reorganizou sua equipe de campanha, pensando justamente na convenção de julho.

Fonte: Exame