Trump turns his gaze on Hillary Clinton

“Her greatest achievement is getting out of trouble,” Trump told supporters. Trump’s victory in the February 10 Republican primary in New Hampshire put him in position to win the party’s nomination, but he trails Clinton in the state by 15 points in the latest poll, 47 per cent to 32 per cent. 

Trump came to New Hampshire after a troubled week in which he tangled with fellow Republican leaders and sparred verbally with the parents of a Muslim soldier who died fighting for the US in Iraq in 2004. 

Clinton, getting a lift from the Democratic National Convention, took advantage of Trump’s stumbles to surge into the lead in national polls and in many battleground states. Now Trump has begun heeding the advice of Republican officials who say he needs to take the fight to Clinton to give the party a chance to win the White House on November 8. 

Trump seized on Clinton’s comments on Friday saying she had “short-circuited” when she said a week ago that FBI Director James Comey had said she had been truthful to the American people in her use of a private email server while serving as US secretary of state from 2009 to 2013. In fact, Comey had concluded that Clinton was “extremely careless” with classified emails.